{"id":3918,"date":"2026-07-22T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T03:06:06","slug":"to-dare-soren-kierkegaard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"To Dare &#8211; J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3919\" style=\"width: 4250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Iceland.avif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3919\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Iceland.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"4250\" height=\"2833\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iceland. [Click to enlarge image.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>From <strong>Trilogy About the Boy<\/strong>, by J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>What does it mean to betray yourself?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>To dare not.\u00a0 To dare not speak. To dare not be afraid. To attempt not to overcome . . . the dark storm inside you. If you do nothing, you betray everyone who matters. &#8230; Nor should you betray those who are dead; we should live for them, as well, they mustn\u2019t be left in the dark and cold, and they mustn\u2019t be forgotten at the bottom of the sea.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Trilogy About the Boy, by J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson &#8220;What does it mean to betray yourself? *\u00a0 *\u00a0 * To dare not.\u00a0 To dare not speak. To dare not be afraid. To attempt not to overcome . . . the dark storm inside you. If you do nothing, you betray everyone who matters. &#8230; Nor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Dare &#8211; J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}