{"id":174,"date":"2004-10-01T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/be-consistent-be-persistent-be-actively-patient\/"},"modified":"2004-10-01T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T21:42:55","slug":"be-consistent-be-persistent-be-actively-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Be consistent. Be persistent. Be actively patient."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Remarks by Ed Zahniser at the Wilderness Week Rally 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wilderness.org\/Library\/Documents\/NoDayMoreRipe.cfm\">Remarks by Ed Zahniser at the Wilderness Week Rally 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a wild bunch you are. What a crucial role you play for our day, our time, in this our wild and deep tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s have a show of hands: how many of you are here today because you went to the jobs fair at your high school, college, or university, and a nattily dressed recruiter promised you big bucks and great benefits as an entry level wilderness advocate?  . . . What, no hands raised? . . . This is a self-selecting calling. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You and I here today enjoy living contacts clear back to our Transcendentalist roots.<\/p>\n<p>Be consistent. Be persistent. Be actively patient. &#8230; This day is as ripe for realization as any day the world has ever known. I adjure you, sons and daughters of our lineage. This is your day. Go forth. Do good. Tell the stories. And keep it wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by Ed Zahniser at the Wilderness Week Rally 2004 What a wild bunch you are. What a crucial role you play for our day, our time, in this our wild and deep tradition. Let&#8217;s have a show of hands: how many of you are here today because you went to the jobs fair at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be consistent. Be persistent. Be actively patient.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}