{"id":10918,"date":"2019-11-12T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T09:44:02","slug":"benjamin-e-mays-goals-dreams-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2019\/11\/12\/benjamin-e-mays-goals-dreams-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin E. Mays: goals, dreams, stars, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn\u2019t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn\u2019t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Mays\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Mays<\/a> \u2013 mentor to Martin Luther King<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/3235-it-must-be-borne-in-mind-that-the-tragedy-of\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/3235-it-must-be-borne-in-mind-that-the-tragedy-of<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn\u2019t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn\u2019t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2Q6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}