{"id":2336,"date":"2021-11-18T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/the-tree-and-the-house\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:26:28","slug":"the-tree-and-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/the-tree-and-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree and the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A parable about envy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/the-tree-and-the-house?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=copy\">latest<\/a>.&#0160; Opening:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A man planted a tree to shade his house from the desert sun. The tree, a palo verde, grew like a weed and was soon taller than the house. The house became envious, feeling diminished by the tree\u2019s stature. The house said to the tree: &quot;How dare you outstrip me, you who were once so puny! I towered above you, but you have made me small.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parable about envy. Substack latest.&#0160; Opening: A man planted a tree to shade his house from the desert sun. The tree, a palo verde, grew like a weed and was soon taller than the house. The house became envious, feeling diminished by the tree\u2019s stature. The house said to the tree: &quot;How dare you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/the-tree-and-the-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tree and the House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,514,342,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-parables","category-seven-deadly-sins","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}