{"id":695,"date":"2007-03-23T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/03\/23\/one-paragraph-that-explains-life\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T18:35:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:05:55","slug":"one-paragraph-that-explains-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/03\/23\/one-paragraph-that-explains-life\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: &#8220;Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease&#8221;?<br \/>\nTo this <strong>Arthur <\/strong>Ashe replied:<br \/>\nThe world over &#8212;<br \/>\n5 crore children start playing tennis,<br \/>\n50 lakh learn to play tennis,<br \/>\n5 lakh learn professional tennis,<br \/>\n50,000 come to the circuit,<br \/>\n5000 reach the grand slam,<br \/>\n50 reach Wimbledon,<br \/>\n4 to semi final,<br \/>\n2 to the finals,<\/p>\n<p>When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD &#8220;Why me?&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em><strong> And today in pain I should not be asking GOD &#8220;Why me?&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nHappiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong,<br \/>\nSorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble,<br \/>\nSuccess keeps u glowing,<br \/>\n<em><strong>  But only God Keeps u Going&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nKeep Going&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: &#8220;Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease&#8221;? To this Arthur Ashe replied: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,4],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}