{"id":493,"date":"2010-09-06T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/493"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:52:54","slug":"the-dog-and-the-shadow-a-modern-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/493","title":{"rendered":"The Dog and the Shadow \u2013 A Modern Fable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, a dog called Peter got lost from his master in a street.&nbsp; Peter saw a market close by.&nbsp; He wondered if his master was inside the market, so he went into the market.&nbsp; He couldn&#39;t find his master in the market.&nbsp; A meat seller in the market thought Peter was poor, so he gave a piece of meat to Peter.<br \/>Peter wanted to find his master first.&nbsp; He put the meat into his mouth and went out from the market.&nbsp; He went to a pond.&nbsp; He thought there was another piece of meat in another dog&#39;s mouth in the water.&nbsp; Peter barked at the &quot;dog&quot;, so the piece of meat in Peter&#39;s mouth fell into the water.&nbsp; Peter was very disappointed and very sad. He decided to keep on looking for his master.<br \/>After Peter made this decision, his master found him.&nbsp; Peter was happy, but he was also a little bit unhappy because of that &quot;dog&quot;.&nbsp; He kept on barking at the water. His master thought there was something special in the pond.&nbsp; Peter&#39;s master put his hand into the water and wanted to find that special thing.&nbsp; He found the piece of meat and gave it to Peter.&nbsp; The master thought Peter was very clever, so he bought another piece of meat in the market as a gift to Peter.&nbsp; Peter could have two pieces of meat now.&nbsp; He was overjoyed.<br \/>Misfortune may be an actual blessing, like the dog&#39;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day, a dog called Peter got lost from his master in a street. Peter saw a market close by. He wondered if his master was inside the market, so he went into the market. He couldn&#39;t find his master in the market. A meat seller in the market thought Peter was poor, so he gave a piece of meat to.........<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/493\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":21,"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-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-9"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/2849"}],"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=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}