{"id":599,"date":"2010-09-24T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/599"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:52:12","slug":"a-world-with-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/599","title":{"rendered":"A World with Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is another world like Earth. A man called Jerry, one of the people living there, cuts his ears off one day and actually most of the people there cut their ears off too.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, when Jerry Still had his ear, he graduated from the university.&nbsp; And he found a good job, which was an office boy.&nbsp; He was happy about this since many people regarded that job as comfortable and high-paid.&nbsp; For the first half year, he felt contented with his job and the good relationship with the colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>His view changed after half a year, however. One day, when he was having lunch with a lady colleague, he carelessly touched on her hair and the other colleagues saw it.&nbsp; Jerry said sorry to her immediately.&nbsp; He thought that the problem was solved. But his colleagues didn&rsquo;t think so.&nbsp; They insisted that Jerry touched her hair on purpose.&nbsp; The gossip spread in his company.&nbsp; The gossip even became Jerry touching the chest of the lady.&nbsp; Jerry tried to explain but nobody listened to his explaining.&nbsp; As the colleagues discriminated against him and saw him as a lecher, nobody talked to him.&nbsp; He felt frustrated.&nbsp; All his colleagues didn&rsquo;t believe him. The gossip kept on spreading in the company.&nbsp; Jerry didn&rsquo;t want to hear it anymore.&nbsp; He tried to pretend that he didn&rsquo;t hear it.&nbsp; But the gossip still kept on appearing in his mind.&nbsp; He hated it.&nbsp; He couldn&rsquo;t even sleep well because his ears always heard the gossip and he couldn&rsquo;t stop thinking about it.&nbsp; He wanted to talk to someone about his trouble but no one wanted to listen to him.&nbsp; His health turned worse.&nbsp; The gossip still lingered in his mind.&nbsp; One day, he thought of a method.&nbsp; He thought that he would never hear the gossip anymore if he cut his ears.<\/p>\n<p>At the pier, he used the knife to cut his ears and threw them to the sea.&nbsp; He thought that it would work but actually the gossip did not come to an end.&nbsp; It remained in his head.&nbsp; He was only lying to himself.&nbsp; In that world, most of the people cut their ears. Isn&rsquo;t it a tragedy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is another world like Earth. A man called Jerry, one of the people living there, cuts his ears off one day and actually most of the people there cut their ears off too.<\/p><p>One year ago, when Jerry Still had his ear, he graduated from the university. And he found a good job, which was an office boy.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/599\" 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-599","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\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/2746"}],"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=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}