{"id":161236,"date":"2020-05-25T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=161236"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:11:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T08:11:55","slug":"mango-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/mango-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very old man was planting mango trees. Someone asked him,<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Do you really expect to eat fruit from those trees?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No, I am much too old for that, but I realized that all my life I ate mangos from trees planted by others, and this is my sign of gratitude to them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dietrich-dieter-fischer-e1575362795888.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-146037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dietrich-dieter-fischer-e1575362795888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. Fischer was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University 1986-88, has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities, and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> <em>in 1993<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer&#8217;s <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" >Stories to Inspire You<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tup\/index.php?book=44\" > &#8211; TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/inspirational-motivational-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-151616 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/inspirational-motivational-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very old man was planting mango trees. Someone asked him,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":146037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1177],"class_list":["post-161236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational","tag-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}