{"id":3510,"date":"2024-04-07T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T11:12:09","slug":"3510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2024\/04\/07\/3510\/","title":{"rendered":"Your children don&#8217;t belong to you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your children don\u2019t belong to you. You\u2019re on borrowed time with them. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a better human being; not to build a mini version of you and all your deflated  hopes and dreams. Help them become the best <em>them<\/em>, not the best <em>you<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~Source: unknown (although I&#8217;ve seen this quote also appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinybuddha\/status\/1776297507749859756\">TinyBuddha<\/a>, Instagram, and a few other places)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this quote appears to be a shorter paraphrase of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/children-1\">Khalil Djubran<\/a>&#8216;s poems, &#8220;On Children&#8221;. (Check it out.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of truth in these words. &#x1f496;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Your children don\u2019t belong to you. You\u2019re on borrowed time with them. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a better human being; not to build a mini version of you and all your deflated hopes and dreams. Help them become the best them, not the best you.\u201d ~Source: unknown (although&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}