{"id":3274,"date":"2020-08-31T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2020-08-31T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:21:00","slug":"the-old-man-in-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/08\/31\/the-old-man-in-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Man in the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Payal looked at her granddad expectantly and said “grandpa will you buy me the big doll in the opposite big toy store?” They were seated on a bench in a walkers park granddad looked at the little 8 year Payal and said with a smile ” I have to ask the old man in the cave first”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Payal asked ” whose he?”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grandpa seated her closer to him and said ” I guess it’s time I told you about him. Grandpa narrated on ” Long ago in a land called nowhere land there lived a king who lavished his wealth unreasonably on undeserving subjects .one day a sage came to the kings court and said “O king I have come for charity what will you give me a treasure chest or a bag of grains” the king said your talking to a king take a treasure chest” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sage said ” go on a tour of your kingdom tomorrow ,two more of my brothers will approach you with similar request s let’s see what you give them.” Saying this the sage left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day the king did as he was told first a sage with a large beard approached him near the river and said ” oh king I’m hungry will you give me a big ship or three big fish to sell and buy food”The king said ” you are talking to a king I give you my ship.” And the king moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a short distance he came across another sage with a shorter beard the sage said ” oh king I’m a shelter less sage will you give me few planks of wood to build a house or will you give me a palace?”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foolish king said again ” your talking to a king, take a palace” to this response the sage got furious and said “oh king you only know how to squander wealth so you don’t deserve it, I curse you that you lose all your wealth, till you advise a hundred men how to spend money wisely and he who doesn’t listen to your advice will be damned to live in\u00a0 a lonely cave with you “Saying this with eyes widely opened grandpa ended his narrative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He held his granddaughter s hand and took her home.After an hour the little one ran to her dad and showed him a pretty little doll she said excitedly “you know dad i asked grandpa to buy me a big doll but he got me this can you guess why?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dad smiled and said” I guess the old man in the cave advised him to get you this little one instead” and winked at his dad\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children should be taught the careful use of money for a penny saved is a penny earned.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Payal looked at her granddad expectantly and said “grandpa will you buy me the big doll in the opposite big toy store?” They were seated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1695,"featured_media":3277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[572,309,946,374,947],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-english-article","tag-english-short-story","tag-king","tag-moral-story","tag-sage"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","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\/1695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}