{"id":103372,"date":"2018-07-11T21:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T04:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=103372"},"modified":"2018-07-11T21:40:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T04:40:40","slug":"brazen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/brazen\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAZEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n And now the Trumpets terribly from far, \/ With rattling Clangor, rouse the Sleepy War. \/ The Soldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen<\/strong> Sounds, \/ And Heaven, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds. – Virgil<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Clouds\"<\/p>\n

Brazen<\/a> means “bronze”. In the past, brazen meant that an individual had a stoic, bold, and bronze (unchanging) face.<\/p>\n

In practical terms, to me, this means:<\/p>\n

\n Have a bold, bronze, and stoic face when you’re confronted with adversity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course if you’re feeling happy and joyful, you smile, laugh, dance, conversate, joke, etc.<\/p>\n

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Brazen is a fantastic word. It conjures the image of King Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, facing death, with honor, dignity; fearless.<\/p>\n

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Why is brazen a bad thing?<\/h2>\n

In today’s world, the word brazen means to be “foolish, silly, dumb, and unwise”. But to be honest, it’s this type of thinking which holds back human potential.<\/p>\n

In America, we’re told to be bold, to innovate, and to “think outside the box”, yet modern institutions prohibit this rule of behavior. We’re still trapped with Puritan-Protestant values, which tell us to be “respectful, quiet, and submissive”. In other words, much of American society has become domesticated, and sedated<\/a> by soma (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, the sedation-happy drug).<\/p>\n

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To conclude, in today’s world, to “succeed” more, let’s be more brazen. Let’s be shameless in terms of what we pursue in life.<\/p>\n

Our life is short. Life is too short for pettiness and bullshit.<\/p>\n

Let’s be the change which we wish to see in the world, and create epic things, and let us fulfill our personal maximum, then go beyond our limits!<\/p>\n

BE BRAZEN,
\nERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now the Trumpets terribly from far, \/ With rattling Clangor, rouse the Sleepy War. \/ The Soldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, \/ And Heaven, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds. – Virgil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/leonidas-wallpaper.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103376,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103372\/revisions\/103376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}