{"id":264,"date":"2018-08-29T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.smallpage.online\/2018\/08\/29\/parable-of-day-two-monks-and-woman\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T07:51:05","slug":"parable-two-monks-and-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/parable-two-monks-and-woman","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Day: Two Monks and a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/269043.p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"501\" data-original-width=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two monks had to cross a turbulent river. A pretty young woman asked them to help her to cross the river because it was too deep for her. The old monk put her on his shoulders and carried her across the river to the other bank.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The younger monk didn\u2019t say anything to the old monk until they almost returned to the monastery. He asked the old monk near the monastery gate, \u201cHoly Scriptures forbid us monks even to touch women! Not only did you touch her: you even carried her on your shoulders!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The elder laughed and replied, \u201cI left her at the riverbank but you are still carrying her.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Translated by The Catalog of Good Deeds <\/em><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two monks had to cross a turbulent river. A pretty young woman asked them to help her to cross the river because it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-and-parables","tag-stories-and-parables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/269043.p-1.jpg","views":{"total":751,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1768402695},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyw9-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23021,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/23021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalog.obitel-minsk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}