{"id":43187,"date":"2023-01-29T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T03:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43187"},"modified":"2023-01-29T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T03:48:03","slug":"a-lesson-for-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43187","title":{"rendered":"A lesson For Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-43188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mouse_and_Friends-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Mouse and Friends\" width=\"794\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mouse_and_Friends-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mouse_and_Friends.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mouse, looking through a hole in the wall, sees the farmer and his wife open a package. He was terrified to see that it was a mousetrap. He ran to the patio to warn everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a mousetrap at home!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The chicken that was cackling and digging says: &#8220;Excuse me, Mr. Mouse, I understand that it is a big problem for you, but it does not hurt me at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, the rodent went to the lamb and he says the same thing: &#8220;Excuse me Mr. Mouse, but I don&#8217;t think I can do more than ask for you in my prayers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mouse went to the cow and she said: &#8220;But am I in danger? I think not!&#8221; said the cow.<\/p>\n<p>The mouse returned to the house, worried and dejected to face the farmer&#8217;s mousetrap.<\/p>\n<p>That night a great noise was heard like that of the mousetrap catching its victim, the woman ran to see what she had caught.<\/p>\n<p>In the dark she did not see that the mousetrap caught the tail of a poisonous snake.<\/p>\n<p>The speedy snake bit the woman, the farmer immediately took her to the hospital, she came back with a high fever.<\/p>\n<p>The farmer to comfort her prepared a nutritious soup, grabbed the knife and went to find the main ingredient: the chicken.<\/p>\n<p>Since the woman did not get better, friends and neighbors went to visit them. The farmer killed the lamb to feed them.<\/p>\n<p>The woman did not get better and died.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end, the husband sold the cow to the slaughterhouse to cover the funeral expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The next time someone tells you about their problem and you think that it doesn&#8217;t affect you because it&#8217;s not yours and you don&#8217;t pay attention to it, think twice, \u201cHe who doesn&#8217;t live to serve, doesn&#8217;t serve to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world is not going badly because of the wickedness of the bad, but because of the apathy of the good.<\/p>\n<p>So when someone needs you for their problems, give them your hand or give them a word of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>May you never lack empathy!<\/p>\n<p>And if it&#8217;s dark, always turn on the light to see what&#8217;s in the mouse trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mouse, looking through a hole in the wall, sees the farmer and his wife open a package. He was terrified to see that it was a mousetrap. He ran to the patio to warn everyone. &#8220;There is a mousetrap at home!&#8221;. The chicken that was cackling and digging says: &#8220;Excuse me, Mr. Mouse, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=43187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A lesson For Us All&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43189,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187\/revisions\/43189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}