{"id":636,"date":"2013-12-02T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindajohnsonleadership.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:32:37","slug":"courage-part-2-if-you-dont-have-it-you-can-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindajohnsonleadership.org\/courage-part-2-if-you-dont-have-it-you-can-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage, Part 2 &#8211;  If You don&#8217;t have it, you can GET it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A courageous leader knows that there is a\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>cost<\/em>\u00a0in genuine leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malala Yousafzai is a teenage Pakistani school student who, in retaliation for her high profile campaign for education and criticism of the Taliban, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman. 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