{"id":349,"date":"2007-11-08T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-11-08T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T05:17:08","slug":"the-scorpion-and-the-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"The Scorpion and The Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>The Scorpion and The Frog<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A scorpion wants to cross the river, but he can&#8217;t swim. Goes to a frog who can and asks for a ride.<\/p>\n<p>Frog says &#8220;If I give you a ride on my back, you&#8217;ll go and sting me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scorpion replies, &#8220;It would not be in my interest to sting you since as I&#8217;ll be on your back, we both would drown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frog thinks about this logic for a while and accepts the deal. Takes the scorpion on his back, braves the waters, halfway over feels a burning spear in his side and realizes the scorpion has stung him after all.<\/p>\n<p>And as they both sink beneath the waves, the frog cries out, &#8220;Why&#8217;d you sting me Mr. Scorpion? For now we both will drown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scorpion replies, &#8220;I can&#8217;t help it. It&#8217;s in my nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e21\u0e32 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crying_Game\">The Crying Game (1992)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scorpion and The Frog A scorpion wants to cross the river, but he can&#8217;t swim. Goes to a frog who can and asks for a ride. Frog says &#8220;If I give you a ride on my back, you&#8217;ll go and sting me.&#8221; Scorpion replies, &#8220;It would not be in my interest to sting you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scorpion and The Frog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-piece-of-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.9digits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}