{"id":61,"date":"2011-07-15T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/?p=118"},"modified":"2021-07-11T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T08:06:05","slug":"the-bat-and-the-weasels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"The Bat And The Weasels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Bat-and-theWeasel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119 aligncenter\" title=\"The Bat and the Weasel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edcortes.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Bat-and-theWeasel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Aesop<\/p>\n<p>A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Point<\/p>\n<p>Telling the truth or being honest is\u00a0still the best act in dealing business\/personal transactions with others. Be not like a bat on this scenario. However during life threatening situation, using\u00a0common sense would help you escape death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aesop A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly afterwards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-realities","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcortes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}