{"id":432,"date":"2008-10-19T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/do-you-measure-up"},"modified":"2024-12-25T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:16:22","slug":"do-you-measure-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/do-you-measure-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you measure up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, over the past few months, I&#8217;ve shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-8-ps-of-luck\">five<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/does-being-big-scare-you\">of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/are-you-ready-for-some-mo-weekend-inspiration\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/i-like-this-motivational-quote-too\">six<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/389\">quotes<\/a> hanging in my home office.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the last one (now this is just my home office&#8230; someone remind me to share what&#8217;s in my corporate office later) &#8212; and it&#8217;s by a hero to all&#8230; <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ultimatemeasure.jpg' alt='ultimatemeasure.jpg' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><br \/>\n&#8220;The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.&#8221;<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It speaks for itself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/?attachment_id=433' rel='attachment wp-att-433' title='measureup.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/measureup.jpg' class='videopic' alt='measureup.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell, over the past few months, I&#8217;ve shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-8-ps-of-luck\">five<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/does-being-big-scare-you\">of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/are-you-ready-for-some-mo-weekend-inspiration\">the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/i-like-this-motivational-quote-too\">six<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/389\">quotes<\/a> hanging in my home office.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the last one (now this is just my home office&#8230; someone remind me to share what&#8217;s in my corporate office later) &#8212; and it&#8217;s by a hero to all&#8230; <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation-self-improvement","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do you measure up? - Hear and Play Music Learning Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/do-you-measure-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Do you measure up? - Hear and Play Music Learning Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, over the past few months, I&#039;ve shared five of the six quotes hanging in my home office.  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