{"id":339,"date":"2020-02-08T03:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=339"},"modified":"2020-02-08T03:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T03:46:52","slug":"lakshmi-money-can-be-stolen-but-never-saraswati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/02\/08\/lakshmi-money-can-be-stolen-but-never-saraswati\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakshmi (money) can be stolen, but never Saraswati"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p><strong>Essay Topic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Crores of rupees can be stolen from banks, but the pen at the counter, tied with a piece of twine is there forever. Elaborate on the implied meaning of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One student wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This clearly implies that Mahalakshmi (money) can be stolen, but never Saraswati (Pen). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, instead of leaving behind unquantified wealth for your child, it is far better to educate him&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We misunderstood our nationalized banks. All these years they have been teaching us this great lesson of life. <\/strong><\/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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Essay Topic &#8220;Crores of rupees can be stolen from banks, but the pen at the counter, tied with a piece of twine is there forever.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-a-smile"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}