{"id":6722,"date":"2020-02-22T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:56:46","slug":"reading-response-to-the-scent-of-the-gods-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6722","title":{"rendered":"Reading response to &#8220;The Scent of the Gods&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Shin, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; I\nhave heard that you joined the National Cadets to protect your own country.\nHowever, your grandma didn\u2019t want you to join and your relationship with her\nhas broken. I encourage you to protect your country instead of obeying your\ngrandma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\nFirstly, the relationship between you and your grandma has already\nbroken up. It will be very difficult to reconcile. There is no point spending\ntime thinking how to improve your relationship. You should rather spend time protecting\nyour country. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\nSecondly, protecting your own country is more meaningful than obeying\nyour grandma. If you protect Singapore, the citizens there can have freedom and\nindependence. They can have a better future. Your grandma can have a better\nlife then and she may regret dissuading you from leaving the National Cadets.\nBut if you choose to obey grandma, your life may not change and your grandma\nmay still blame you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\nLastly, you will not regret in the future. You have already been joining\nthe National Cadets for 3 years. If you choose to quit it now, you may regret\nfor the whole life. Your wish since you were young was to protect your country\nand to fight for freedom. So don\u2019t give up on your dream and keep fighting for\nyour country. You may also regret for not obeying your grandma, but you still\nhave time to choose to obey her after you have finished fighting for your\ncountry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; I\nencouraged you to choose to protect your country. I hope you will take my\nadvice. But of course, you should choose what you like by yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\nCheers, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Coey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Dear Shin<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>have heard that you joined the National Cadets to protect your own country.However, your grandma didn\u2019t want you to join and your relationship with hehas broken. I encourage you to protect your country instead of obeying yougrandma.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Firstly, the relationship between you and your grandma .........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6722\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20,"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-6722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s2","schoolyear-79"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8455,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/8455"}],"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=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}