{"id":408,"date":"2006-09-24T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-09-24T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T01:16:00","slug":"meditation-point-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Point #55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When elephants fight,<br \/>\nit is the grass that suffers.<br \/>\n&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps%26field-keywords%3DKikuyu%2BProverb%26x%3D14%26y%3D22&amp;tag=willingtonkar-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Kikuyu Proverb<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=willingtonkar-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I find this proverb particularly resonant as a parent.  To often we forget that the fights we &#8220;adults&#8221; have can reek significant collateral damage for our children.  It is often those who are not directly involved in a fight that are most effected, especially children.  I have found very few occasions when it was necessary or appropriate to &#8220;fight&#8221; whether in a relationship or on the street.  Hope my idle ramblings add something to this proverb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. &#8212; Kikuyu Proverb I find this proverb particularly resonant as a parent. To often we forget that the fights we &#8220;adults&#8221; have can reek significant collateral damage for our children. It is often those who are not directly involved in a fight that are most effected,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-58\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-zen-thing","category-it-is-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}