{"id":7874,"date":"2010-11-08T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2010-11-08T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:46:43","slug":"an-ugly-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/an-ugly-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ugly Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7876\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119-300x119.jpg?resize=300%2C119\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119.jpg?resize=300%2C119&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119.jpg?resize=96%2C38&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119.jpg?resize=1024%2C407&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119.jpg?resize=810%2C322&amp;ssl=1 810w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/119.jpg?w=1075&amp;ssl=1 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;Grimmer Tales: A\u00a0Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories&#8217;  by Erik Bergstrom, is &#8216;The Ugly Truth&#8217;, which I think is the best in  the book\u00a0&#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8216;There once was an ugly duckling.<br \/>\nNone of the other ducks would hang out with him.<br \/>\nOne day the duckling changed into a beautiful swan!<br \/>\nTurns out that he&#8217;s still pretty dull.<br \/>\nDucks aren&#8217;t as superficial as you might\u00a0think.&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n(As the others still would not hang out with him!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>My comments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is indeed\u00a0but a fairy tale<br \/>\nthat improvement in looks alone will change your life,<br \/>\nbecause life is not a superficial beauty contest,<br \/>\nwhile true beauty is not necessarily seen on one&#8217;s form,<br \/>\nbut through one&#8217;s beautiful thoughts manifested in word and deed &#8211;<br \/>\nin terms of compassion and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral of the story: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">While most of us wish to be sophisticated and beautiful swans,<br \/>\nin the case that we can&#8217;t have the best of both worlds,<br \/>\nit is better to be a sophisticated duck<br \/>\nthat to be a superficial swan!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Grimmer Tales: A\u00a0Wicked Collection of Happily Never After Stories&#8217; by Erik Bergstrom, is &#8216;The Ugly Truth&#8217;, which I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[57,111,58],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-compassion","tag-perception","tag-wisdom","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","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=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}