{"id":124276,"date":"2022-06-29T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=124276"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:14:48","slug":"hour-fourteen-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-fourteen-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fourteen ~ The Wise Tree ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cTell me an old story (like a folktale from your culture, a fairytale you heard when you were young or a story passed down in your family).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"comment-content\">\n<p>Tree Stories are common in the East<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoaning again? You are being ungrateful! When will you ever realize?\u201d said Pine, standing tall and graceful, swaying just a bit from side to side. \u201cStop please, dear Hedge, your moaning is disturbing everyone. If one plant is grieving, it affects all, keep in leaves the environment. It is vital for the well-being of all living here,\u201d explained Pine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to, I am trying to, but see I have no color, no flowers, no one looks at me; me the green, green hedge, and I am so short. Oh! It so hurts my small twigs,\u201d complained Hedge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, listen to what the Great Persian Writer Sheikh Saadi wrote in a short story about a king and his son,\u201d said Pine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBah! What story? Don\u2019t tell me about kings and princes and fairies and\u2026,\u201d mumbled Hedge in contempt.<\/p>\n<p>Pine continued anyway saying, \u201cThe king would think that his son was short and ugly so no princess would marry him. But, the son was sharp and intelligent; he asked his father, \u201cIsn\u2019t a short intelligent person better than a tall but stupid one? The goat can be eaten but not the elephant.\u201d The king was shaken and immediately regretted his unreasonable thoughts. \u201cSo, being sensible is the key. I cannot bend, but you can see the earth and be with so many friends, and if you feel happy about yourself, the way nature has made you, you will bloom and develop a strong fragrance. So bloom you will, even in isolation. Only you can make yourself happy\u201d, concluded Pine.<\/p>\n<p>Together the Hedge and the Pine swayed with the light breeze, as music filled the air, making it strangely fragrant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>25 June 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTell me an old story (like a folktale from your culture, a fairytale you heard when you were young or a story passed down in your family). &nbsp; Tree Stories are common in the East \u201cMoaning again? You are being ungrateful! When will you ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124280,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124276\/revisions\/124280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}