{"id":2937,"date":"2010-02-10T21:21:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2010-02-10T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:20:18","slug":"on-manliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2937","title":{"rendered":"On Manliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in a BSA related discussion the following statement was made,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026and that\u2019s without even getting into the dubious idea of \u201cmanliness\u201d \u2014 the idea that there is one right way to be a man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and to this I have to agree with the BSA. There is in fact only one right way to &#8220;be a man&#8221;, this is not a multiple choice exam. Examine for a moment, the BSA Scout Law: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3>Scout Law<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, <br \/>courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,<br \/>brave, clean, and reverent. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> which pretty much nails it. One has expressed manliness by (a) being a man and (b) living those 12 virtues. <\/p>\n<p>There is no &#8220;alternate&#8221; or &#8220;other&#8221; way to be a man.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=a1a9d8a9-309f-826b-95bb-fc89710604ea\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in a BSA related discussion the following statement was made, \u2026and that\u2019s without even getting into the dubious idea of \u201cmanliness\u201d \u2014 the idea that there is one right way to be a man. and to this I have to agree with the BSA. There is in fact only one right way to &#8220;be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-morality","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}