{"id":6356,"date":"2010-05-31T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6356"},"modified":"2010-05-31T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:24:33","slug":"the-harder-we-must-strive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/the-harder-we-must-strive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harder We Must Strive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/168.jpg?resize=139%2C142\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/168.jpg?w=139&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/168.jpg?resize=94%2C96&amp;ssl=1 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For matters of truth and goodness,<br \/>\nthe harder it is to do what is right,<br \/>\nthe harder we must strive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stonepeace<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">From &#8216;Manifest Destiny : Nightcrawler #1&#8217; by Jason Aaron:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><br \/>\nNightcrawler: Henrik! Henrik! Stop this! (about to kill an old man in  anger, who was out among others to kill him)<br \/>\nHenrik: Why?!<br \/>\nNightcrawler: Because &#8211; this is it. What you are doing&#8230; You will never  be Henrik again. Not to anyone in this land. Not to yourself. You will  only be this creature. This vielfras (hodgepodge of various creature).<br \/>\nHenrik: They left me with no other choice!<br \/>\nNightcrawler: You are wrong, mein freund (my friend). There is always a choice. I  say this from personal experience. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A hard-won understanding that when  you look like us &#8211; or like so many mutants who have been persecuted &#8211;  you have to be a better man than the rest, just to come out even. And it  isn&#8217;t fair. And it isn&#8217;t easy. But the only other option is &#8211; that you  become the monster they think you are.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You let others become demons<br \/>\nwhen you let them demonise you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>&#8211; Stonepeace <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For matters of truth and goodness, the harder it is to do what is right, the harder we must strive&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[490,426,45,107],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-demonisation","tag-goodness","tag-stonepeace","tag-truth","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}