{"id":724,"date":"2014-06-02T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:47:04","slug":"baccalaureate-reading-by-bennett-wheeler-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2014\/06\/02\/baccalaureate-reading-by-bennett-wheeler-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Baccalaureate Reading by Bennett Wheeler &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: The following was presented by Bennett Wheeler &#8217;14 during the Baccalaureate Service on Saturday, May 24, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,<br \/>\nTo weep is to risk being called sentimental.<br \/>\nTo reach out to another is to risk involvement.<br \/>\nTo expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.<br \/>\nTo place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called na\u00efve.<br \/>\nTo love is to risk not being loved in return,<br \/>\nTo live is to risk dying,<br \/>\nTo hope is to risk despair,<br \/>\nTo try is to risk failure<br \/>\nBut risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.<br \/>\nThe person who risks nothing, does nothing, and has nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.<br \/>\nChained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited freedom.<br \/>\nOnly a person who risks is free.<\/p>\n<p>-Anonymous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: The following was presented by Bennett Wheeler &#8217;14 during the Baccalaureate Service on Saturday, May 24, 2014. To laugh is to risk appearing the fool, To weep is to risk being called sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self. To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2014\/06\/02\/baccalaureate-reading-by-bennett-wheeler-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baccalaureate Reading by Bennett Wheeler &#8217;14<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[203,16],"tags":[163,207],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baccalaureate-service","category-student-speaker","tag-baccalaureate","tag-bennett-wheeler-14"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}