{"id":3603,"date":"2009-09-04T00:07:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T15:16:19","slug":"tongues-might-wag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/tongues-might-wag\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongues Might Wag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 17px;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3605\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/19.jpg?resize=194%2C167\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"167\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tit for a Tat (46)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> Look! Two guys checking into a hotel&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> So?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> Tongues might wag<span style=\"color: #800000;\">!<br \/>\nTat:<\/span> Actually, tongues might wag for other cases too.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> Such as?<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> When two girls check in?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> Hmmm&#8230; I see what you mean.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> And when a guy and a girl check in?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> Agree&#8230;<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> Even when a single person stands outside a hotel!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Tit:<\/span> What is the moral of this all?<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\nTat:<\/span> Tongues MIGHT wag &#8211; for any reason, reasonable or not!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not only of today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;They blame him who sits silent,<br \/>\nthey blame him who speaks much,<br \/>\nthey also blame him who says little;<br \/>\nthere is no one on Earth who is not blamed.&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">[Even the blameless Buddha was blamed by those who misunderstood him!]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There never was,<br \/>\nthere never will be,<br \/>\nnor is there now,<br \/>\na (wo)man who is always blamed,<br \/>\nor a (wo) man who is always praised.<\/p>\n<p>But he whom those who discriminate praise continually day after day,<br \/>\nas without blemish, wise, rich in knowledge and virtue,<br \/>\nwho would dare to blame him,<br \/>\nlike a coin made of gold from the Gambu river?<br \/>\nEven the gods praise him, he is praised even by Brahman. [should be &#8216;Brahma(s)&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dhammapada (Verse 227 &#8211; 230)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Next aT4aT: <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/tell-me-my-character\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/tell-me-my-character<\/a><br \/>\nPrevious aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/what-do-you-mean\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/what-do-you-mean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (46) Tit: Look! Two guys checking into a hotel&#8230; Tat: So? Tit: Tongues might wag!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-speech","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}