{"id":544,"date":"2009-07-31T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T11:14:00","slug":"hard-at-work-or-hardly-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard at work or hardly working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesharkguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hard_work_harris.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesharkguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hard_work_harris.jpg\"><\/span><\/a><span><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span><span><em>\u201cHard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their<\/em> <\/span><\/span><em><span><span>noses, and some don\u2019t turn up at all. \u201c\n<p>\u2014 Sam Ewing<\/p><\/span><br><\/span><\/em><br>What do you think about hard work? We all have a lazy gene that sneaks up every once in a while. Others let it flourish. Some will work hard their whole life out of some sort of emotional need for success. Others could care less.<\/div>\n<div>\n<br>In your experience, do Christians work harder? Or do they avoid it?\n<p>Do you work hard? Why or why not.<\/p>\n<p>Comment <a href=\"http:\/\/redletterbelievers.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/hard-work.html#respond\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here.<br><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<a title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/167bae8a-a751-4ce6-85f1-f2ed6457a8d7\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" src=\"https:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=167bae8a-a751-4ce6-85f1-f2ed6457a8d7\"><\/a><span>\n<p><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>Please, share with a friend if you feel moved.<br>\nRead all past issues at http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don\u2019t turn up at all. \u201c \u2014 Sam EwingWhat do you think about hard work? We all have a lazy gene that sneaks up every once in a while. Others let it flourish. Some will work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hard-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hard at work or hardly working?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don&#039;t turn up at all. &quot;-- Sam EwingWhat do\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hard at work or hardly working?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don&#039;t turn up at all. &quot;-- Sam EwingWhat do\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"David Rupert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/davidrupert\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-07-31T11:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.thesharkguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/hard_work_harris.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David Rupert\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@rupzip\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"David Rupert\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/\",\"name\":\"Hard at work or hardly working?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-31T11:14:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-07-31T11:14:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/#\/schema\/person\/1ee971d3244e1f67a487a31f55d37c81\"},\"description\":\"\\\"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. \\\"-- Sam EwingWhat do\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/hard-at-work-or-hardly-working\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hard at work or hardly working?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/\",\"name\":\"David Rupert\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/#\/schema\/person\/1ee971d3244e1f67a487a31f55d37c81\",\"name\":\"David Rupert\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/47e7c27dc78a66ace4b19bb00da8bccc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/47e7c27dc78a66ace4b19bb00da8bccc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"David Rupert\"},\"description\":\"I am a communication professional who has a passion for people. 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