{"id":5966,"date":"2026-08-16T17:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:37:49","slug":"i-dont-value-what-you-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=5966","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Value What You Value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan that the people behind Van Wilder 3 had was pretty malicious. It&#8217;s just an attempt to embarrass me. Look, God made me this way and there is no reason for me to be ashamed of who I am. I have some unique strengths and some unique weaknesses, but this is who God made me to be so why should I apologize for any of it? If I were to get my values from the world, I would either be full of pride when I&#8217;m operating under my God-given strengths or I would get very depressed when my weaknesses come to the fore. But it is my God-given duty as a child of God to reject all of that. God made me with whatever strengths and weaknesses I have so I reject the values that you want to impose on me that would have crippled me had I believed and incorporated them into my life. If you want to judge yourself and other people by a false worldly standard, then that&#8217;s your problem and you&#8217;ll reap the consequences of your deluded thinking, but don&#8217;t try to impose those standards and values on me, because I won&#8217;t judge myself by them. I&#8217;ll judge myself based on what God says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan that the people behind Van Wilder 3 had was pretty malicious. It&#8217;s just an attempt to embarrass me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/watermarked_img_4072129924246700973.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}