{"id":5464,"date":"2025-09-28T08:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:25:24","slug":"work-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5464","title":{"rendered":"Work Hard!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Imaginative Conservative recently published <a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2025\/09\/work-hard-exhortation-collegiate-men-ray-van-neste.html\">my essay with this title<\/a>. This is an address I gave to a group of Union students at a guys morning Bible study a couple of years ago. Too many voices encourage men to laziness or a complaining, whining spirit. We must cast this off and embrace the call to work hard and endure. As I told these young men, &#8220;Whining whittles away the will to work.&#8221; I hope this essay can stir up some young men to this path which is a necessary part of any meaningful life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imaginative Conservative recently published my essay with this title. This is an address I gave to a group of Union students at a guys morning Bible study a couple of years ago. Too many voices encourage men to laziness or a complaining, whining spirit. We must cast this off and embrace the call to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Work Hard!&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[381,39,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}