{"id":17389,"date":"2026-10-11T10:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:35:06","slug":"wisdom-before-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom before God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;An excuse is not a good reason, and a good reason does not give you an excuse&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A great clip from the movie Kingdom of Heaven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This May Be One Of The Wisest Movie Quotes Of All Time.\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/54D1ISjDcd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;..<em>even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power &#8211; your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, &#8216;But I was told by others to do thus.&#8217; Or that, &#8216;Virtue was not convenient at the time.&#8217; This will not suffice. Remember that.&#8221;<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An excuse is not a good reason, and a good reason does not give you an excuse&#8221; A great clip from the movie Kingdom of Heaven. &#8220;..even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power &#8211; your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, &#8216;But I was told by others to do thus.&#8217; Or that, &#8216;Virtue was not convenient at the time.&#8217; This will not suffice. Remember that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4wt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}