{"id":420,"date":"2023-08-17T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2023-08-17T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:45:07","slug":"what-would-my-mom-think-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/420\/what-would-my-mom-think-of-that\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What would my Mom think of that?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_421\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">    <picture>\r\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/abel-mutai-ivan-fernandez.jpg\"\r\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/abel-mutai-ivan-fernandez.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/abel-mutai-ivan-fernandez-188x300.jpg 188w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\r\n             width=\"526\"\r\n             height=\"838\"\r\n             alt=\"abel-mutai-ivan-fernandez\"\r\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\r\n             class=\"size-full wp-image-421\" >\r\n    <\/picture>\r\n    <p id=\"caption-attachment-421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Fernandez (Spain) pushing Abel Mutai (Kenya) over the finish line<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;What would my Mom think of that?&#8221;<br \/>\nIn a race, (see picture), athlete Abel Mutai representing Kenya, was just a few feet from the finish line, but he was confused with the signage &amp; stopped thinking he had completed the race. The Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez was right behind him &amp; realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn&#8217;t know Spanish didn&#8217;t understand. Then the Spanish pushed him to victory. A journalist asked Ivan, &#8220;Why did you do that?&#8221;<br \/>\nIvan replied, &#8220;My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life&#8221;. The journalist insisted &#8220;But why did you let the Kenyan win?&#8221; Ivan replied, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t let him win, he was going to win&#8221;. The journalist insisted again, &#8220;But you could have won!&#8221; Ivan looked at him &amp; replied, &#8220;But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honour of that medal?<br \/>\nWhat would my Mom think of that?&#8221;<br \/>\nValues are transmitted from generation to generation.<br \/>\nWhat values are we teaching our children?<br \/>\nLet us not teach our kids the wrong ways &amp; means to WIN<br \/>\n&#8211; Birad Rajaram Yajnik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What would my Mom think of that?&#8221; In a race, (see picture), athlete Abel Mutai representing Kenya, was just a few feet from the finish line, but he was confused with the signage &amp; stopped thinking he had completed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/420\/what-would-my-mom-think-of-that\/\">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":[28,38],"tags":[320,326,325,322,321,324,323],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-story","tag-abel-mutai","tag-honor","tag-integrity","tag-ivan-fernandez","tag-kenya","tag-race","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}