{"id":993,"date":"1980-11-15T16:31:55","date_gmt":"1980-11-16T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:33:26","slug":"a-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"A Fable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/randols\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=993\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=993\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>From the New Harvard Magazine (Fall 1980)<\/p>\n<p>A FABLE<\/p>\n<p>By Randy Schoenberg<\/p>\n<p>The donkey and the elephant started down the road to ask the inhabitants of the land whom they would rather have as their leader; each first queried the worker bees saying, \u201cVote for me.\u201d But the bees could not hammer out their differences and so replied, \u201cHow are we to decide between such drones as you?\u201d The donkey and the elephant each queried the magpies, \u201cWill you vote for me?\u201d But the reply the magpies broadcast could not be heard above the static that the question created. Then the donkey and the elephant queried the bulls, asking \u201cWill you vote for me?\u201d But the bulls answered, \u201cAre we to waste our time deciding between you two greenhorns when we could be doing something capital, like exchanging blows?\u201d So the donkey and the elephant went on and finally queried the lion\u2019s cubs, \u201cWill you please vote for me?\u201d The backscratching lion\u2019s cubs, though small, roared, \u201cWe choose the elephant in the hope that he will remember that it was upon our backs that he was launched up to his exalted position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New Harvard Magazine (Fall 1980) A FABLE By Randy Schoenberg The donkey and the elephant started down the road to ask the inhabitants of the land whom they would rather have as their leader; each first queried the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/?p=993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schoenblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}