{"id":48630,"date":"2026-02-04T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/?p=48630"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:06:31","slug":"the-child-and-the-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/good-night\/the-child-and-the-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Child and the Old Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The child: \u201cSometimes I drop my spoon.\u201d<br \/>\nThe old man: \u201cIt often happens to me too.\u201d<br \/>\nThe child whispered: \u201cI wet my pants.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI do it too,\u201d smiled the old man.<br \/>\nThe child: \u201cI often cry.\u201d<br \/>\nThe old man nodded: \u201cMe too.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut the worst thing of all,\u201d said the child, \u201cis that nobody pays attention to me.\u201d<br \/>\nAt that moment he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand on his chubby little hand.<br \/>\n\u201cI know what you mean,\u201d said the old man.<br \/>\n(Shel Silverstein)<\/p>\n<p><em>From beginning to end, life is fragile.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The child: \u201cSometimes I drop my spoon.\u201d The old man: \u201cIt often happens to me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[2193,2065,2027,1985,1943],"class_list":["post-48630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-night","tag-education","tag-famiglia-en","tag-life","tag-solidarity","tag-yooungsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630","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=48630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48637,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48630\/revisions\/48637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}