{"id":1720,"date":"2015-09-18T22:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T05:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:18:20","slug":"the-three-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/the-three-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Questions is a story by Tolstoy concerning an emperor who, in the course of ruling his realm, confronts three questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first question is: \u201cWhat is the best time to start a task? How does on avoid missing the appropriate time, so that one may have no regret?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The second question is: \u201cWhat kind of person is most crucial to us as individuals? What kind of person would you regarding as important?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The third question is: \u201cOf all the kinds of work that exist, what is the most important?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The emperor wants to know the answers, because he is sure that if he knows the answers, he can live a successful life. He makes it known throughout the realm that he will reward whoever can tell him the answers. Many learned men offer him answers, but the emperor learns that men are not necessarily wise.<\/p>\n<p>In the end the emperor is provided the answers from a sage who lives among the people.<\/p>\n<p>The wise man replies to the questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat is the most important time?\u201d by saying, \u201cNow, this very moment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWho is the most important person?\u201d The sage replies, \u201cThe person with whom you are involved right here and now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat is the most important task?\u201d The wise man replies, \u201cDoing good to others; serving others.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Questions is a story by Tolstoy concerning an emperor who, in the course of ruling his realm, confronts three questions. The first question is: \u201cWhat is the best time to start a task? How does on avoid missing the appropriate time, so that one may have no regret?\u201d The second question is: \u201cWhat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckcraytor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}