{"id":2562,"date":"2011-03-13T22:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:32:49","slug":"two-wolves-a-cherokee-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/two-wolves-a-cherokee-parable\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Wolves (A Cherokee Parable)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twowolves.jpg\" alt=\"twowolves\" title=\"twowolves\" width=\"470\" height=\"182\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twowolves.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/twowolves-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nA fight is going on inside me,&#8221; he said to the boy.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;One is evil &#8211; he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The other is good &#8211; he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This same fight is going on inside you &#8211; and inside every other person, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, &#8220;Which wolf will win?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe old chief simply replied, &#8220;The one you feed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life&#8230; A fight is going on inside me,&#8221; he said to the boy. &#8220;It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. &#8220;One is evil &#8211; he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}