{"id":225,"date":"2010-05-11T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:37:41","slug":"service-muhammed-ali-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2010\/05\/11\/service-muhammed-ali-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Service, Muhammed Ali, and you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Fran Leibowitz, in a Dorothy Parker moment, said, &#8220;Humility is no substitute for a good personality.&#8221; That may be, but I am nonetheless feeling humbled by an honor from Paul Smith&#8217;s College&#8211;I&#8217;ve been asked to give the Commencement speech. The topic: service.<\/p>\n<p>My friends and family keep asking me, &#8220;have you written your speech, yet?&#8221; or &#8220;what are you going to say about service?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far, the answers to these two questions: &#8220;no&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Muhammed Ali said: &#8220;Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What is service? What do you do in your life to serve something or someone(s) other than yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Help! I promise to credit you in my speech if I use your experiences, ideas or thoughts on service. Leave your comments here. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Fran Leibowitz, in a Dorothy Parker moment, said, &#8220;Humility is no substitute for a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1263,1264,1265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}