{"id":71508,"date":"2024-03-26T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=71508"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:37:05","slug":"the-wise-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/the-wise-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wise Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. <strong>\u201cNow pull out that one,\u201d said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cNow take this one out,\u201d said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The youth grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge. <strong>\u201cIt\u2019s impossible,\u201d said the boy, panting with the effort.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cSo it is with bad habits,\u201d said the sage. <strong>\u201cWhen they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The session with the old man changed the boy\u2019s life.\n<h4><span style='\"font-size:' color:>Moral: Don\u2019t wait for Bad Habits to grow in you, drop them while you have control over it else they will get control you.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping suddenly he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there. The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out.\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":71509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"A wealthy man requested an old scholar to wean his son away from his bad habits. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-Wise-Old-Man-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></h4></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></strong></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p>