{"id":1145,"date":"2010-04-26T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:06:21","slug":"if-by-rudyard-kipling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/if-by-rudyard-kipling\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If&#8221;, by Rudyard Kipling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2551\" src=\"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kipling.jpg\" alt=\"Kipling\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can keep your head when all about you<br \/>\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;<br \/>\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br \/>\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;<br \/>\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br \/>\nOr, being lied about, don&#8217;t deal in lies,<br \/>\nOr, being hated, don&#8217;t give way to hating,<br \/>\nAnd yet don&#8217;t look too good, nor talk too wise;<br \/>\nIf you can dream-and not make dreams your master;<br \/>\nIf you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;<br \/>\nIf you can meet with triumph and disaster<br \/>\nAnd treat those two imposters just the same;<br \/>\nIf you can bear to hear the truth you&#8217;ve spoken<br \/>\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br \/>\nOr watch the things you gave your life to broken,<br \/>\nAnd stoop and build &#8217;em up with wornout tools;<\/p>\n<p>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br \/>\nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br \/>\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings<br \/>\nAnd never breathe a word about your loss;<br \/>\nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br \/>\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,<br \/>\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you<br \/>\nExcept the Will which says to them: &#8220;Hold on&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br \/>\nOr walk with kings-nor lose the common touch;<br \/>\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;<br \/>\nIf all men count with you, but none too much;<br \/>\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute<br \/>\nWith sixty seconds&#8217; worth of distance run &#8211;<br \/>\nYours is the Earth and everything that&#8217;s in it,<br \/>\nAnd &#8211; which is more &#8211; you&#8217;ll be a Man my son!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can keep your head when all about you<br \/>\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;<br \/>\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br \/>\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;<br \/>\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br \/>\nOr, being lied about, don&#8217;t deal in lies,<br \/>\nOr, being hated, don&#8217;t give way to hating,<br \/>\nAnd yet don&#8217;t look too good, nor talk too wise;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,12,3,61],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coaching-and-effectiveness","tag-mental-health","tag-poems","tag-the-western-philosophical-tradition","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intromeditation.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}