{"id":876,"date":"2021-11-14T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:16:38","slug":"do-not-ask-your-children-to-strive-by-william-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Ask Your Children to Strive&#8217; by William Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives.<br \/>\nSuch striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.<br \/>\nHelp them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.<br \/>\nShow them the joy of tasting tomatoes,apples and pears.<br \/>\nShow them how to cry when pets and people die.<br \/>\nShow them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand.<br \/>\nAnd make the ordinary cone alive for them.<br \/>\nThe extraordinary will take care of itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by William Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes,apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ritudewan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}