{"id":44507,"date":"2025-07-18T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/uncategorised\/il-saggio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:27:34","slug":"the-wise-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/good-night\/the-wise-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The wise man"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Emperor Cyrus the Great loved to converse amiably with a very wise friend named Akkad.<br \/>One day, having just returned exhausted from a war campaign against the Medes, Cyrus stopped by his old friend to spend a few days with him.<br \/>\u201cI am exhausted, dear Akkad. All these battles are wearing me out. How I wish I could stop and spend time with you, chatting on the banks of the Euphrates\u2026.\u201d<br \/>\u201cBut, dear sire, by now you have defeated the Medes, what will you do?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI want to seize Babylon and subdue it.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAnd after Babylon?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI will subdue Greece.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAnd after Greece?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI will conquer Rome.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAnd after that?\u201d<br \/>\u201cI will stop. I will return here and we will spend happy days conversing amiably on the banks of the Euphrates\u2026.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAnd why, sire, my friend, shall we not begin at once?\u201d<br \/><br \/><br \/><em>There will always be another day to say \u201cI love you\u201d.<br \/>Remember your loved ones today, and whisper in their ear, tell them how much you love them. Take the time to say \u201cI am sorry\u201d, \u201cPlease listen to me\u201d, \u201cThank you\u201d.<br \/>Tomorrow you will not regret what you did today.<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emperor Cyrus the Great loved to converse amiably with a very wise friend named Akkad.One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[1745,2027,2021,2615],"class_list":["post-44507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-night","tag-councils","tag-life","tag-virtue","tag-witnesses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44528,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44507\/revisions\/44528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}