{"id":221,"date":"2020-02-01T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=221"},"modified":"2020-02-01T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T22:24:51","slug":"all-work-no-play-makes-john-a-dull-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/02\/01\/all-work-no-play-makes-john-a-dull-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"All Work &#038; No Play, Makes John A Dull Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Amit was the only child of his parents. He grew up amidst a ocean of \nlove and affection. His father wanted him to be a scientist when he grew\n up. Amit was very intelligent and smart. In his primary classes he was a\n hit among his teachers and friends. Everybody liked him. But suddenly \nsomething happened which changed his course of life. Both his parents \ndied in a road accident. Amit\u2019s uncle took charge of him. He was a peon \nin a office and a drunkard. He never cared for his own family. He \nwithdrew Amit from the school and made him to work in a hotel. Poor Amit\n had to wash dishes, scrub tables and hardly got anything to eat. He was\n very sad. He pined for his parents. He wanted to go to school and play \nwith his friends. Instead he had to work from dawn to dusk. He never \nfound a moment to relax and play. After a few months he gradually turned\n dull. He could hardly remember things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amit\u2019s greedy uncle sold him for five thousand rupees. The man who \npurchased him was wealthy and childless. He looked after Amit as his own\n son. Amit was again sent to school. But he was no more the same \nintelligent, smart boy. His mind had retarded. He was unable to remember\n things. A few months of hard physical labour without any time for \nrelaxation had made him dull. It took a lot of effort to bring him back \nto normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So children, it is necessary to find some time from your busy  schedules to play and relax. Playing the amusing physical exercise which  reactivates our mind and re-energises us. Hard labour combined with  relaxation makes us intelligent and all work and no play retards our  mind as you saw in case of Amit. Now I am sure you understand the  saying, \u201call work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author : Akankshya Abismruta \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0City : Sambalpur\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Age : 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Amit was the only child of his parents. He grew up amidst a ocean of love and affection. His father wanted him to be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,13],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-chandamama","tag-english"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}