{"id":4585,"date":"2014-12-16T07:38:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jambointernational.org\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:38:51","slug":"%e4%b8%8e%e3%81%88%e3%82%8b%e5%96%9c%e3%81%b3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/%e4%b8%8e%e3%81%88%e3%82%8b%e5%96%9c%e3%81%b3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once some of the elders were in Scete and Abbot John the Dwarf was with them.<\/p>\n<p>While they were dining, a priest, a very old man, got up and attempted to serve them.  But no one would take so much as a cup of water from him except John the Dwarf.<\/p>\n<p>The others were somewhat shocked about this and later<!--more--> said to him, &#8220;How is it that you considered yourself worthy to accept the service of that holy man?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replied, &#8220;Well, when I offer people a drink of water, I&#8217;m happy if they take it.  Did you expect me to sadden the old man by depriving him of the joy of giving me something?&#8221; (From &#8220;Taking Flight&#8221; by Anthony de Mello, page 158)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once some of the elders were in Scete and Abbot John the Dwarf was with them. While they were dining, a priest, a very old man, got up and attempted to serve them. But no one would take so much as a cup of water from him except John the Dwarf. The others were somewhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}