{"id":4360,"date":"2013-12-07T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T16:59:24","slug":"the-why-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4360","title":{"rendered":"The Why Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember Alex once brought up the fact that children today love to ask WHY, whenever they are told something. His answer to them is: \"Why do you ask Why?\" anticipating that they would not be able to reply.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of this for a while. There are times where kids use \"why\" as an excuse, to which we could have better alternative answer than \"Why do you ask why?\". Such as \"Because I, you father\/mother\/teacher, said so.\" Others ask in genuine sincerity, and we must reply with care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember Alex once brought up the fact that children today love to ask WHY, whenever they are told something. His answer to them is: \"Why do you ask Why?\" anticipating that they would not be able to reply. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}