{"id":1918,"date":"2015-02-12T06:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T06:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1918"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:13:55","slug":"i-am-a-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1918","title":{"rendered":"I am a candle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am a red, thick candle. I have a waxy surface. I was born in a big factory and had lived in an old store for six months before a little boy took me home one day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The little boy held me in his hand when he stepped in his home. I could see his home was small, filthy and in poor condition. I knew that he was poor. He put me in his drawer and had never taken me out after buying me for four months. I lived in the dirty drawer, feeling like suffocated. Disgusting!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh my goodness, why am I so unlucky to have this master?\u201d I always thought. His drawer was empty. I could chat with nobody. The thing that I could do was only — self talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

One evening, the little boy took me out. His room was full of darkness. I looked at his lamp. I thought it had been broken. The little boy stared at me for a while, sounded like thinking if he should lit me up. He got a match and lit me up. I felt quite happy as I didn\u2019t need to stay in his drawer anymore. Yet, I felt quite sad as I would lose my life so soon\u2026 \u00a0That time, I saw the little boy doing his study hard. The fire in his heart was even brighter than mine. I couldn\u2019t say anything and I didn\u2019t know what to say. My body kept burning. I became shorter and shorter. I turned white and I felt weaker and weaker\u2026 \u00a0I didn\u2019t know why I did want to use all my effort to light up myself for my master. Ten minutes… twenty minutes\u2026 thirty minutes\u2026 I couldn\u2019t stand still or open my eyes anymore. The last image I saw was the little boy having slept on his desk\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

At that moment, I felt pleased and satisfied. I was glad to be your candle, master. I was glad to light up your life. I was just a simple candle, not like the candle of the candlelight dinner, not like the candle for the birthday cake. Yet, \u2026 it was good to be a\u2026 simple candle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simple, but fighting till the last moment of my life to serve!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a red, thick candle. I have a waxy surface. I was born in a big factory and had lived in an old store for six months before a little boy took me home one day.<\/span><\/p>

The little boy held me in his hand when he stepped in his home. I could see his home was small, filthy and in poor condition. I knew that.........<\/span><\/p>Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-others","schoolyear-36"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}