{"id":98452,"date":"2022-11-20T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98452"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:24:35","slug":"driven-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/driven-away-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven Away from Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Driven Away from Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An unaffiliated Jew wished to demonstrate his pride in his sixteen-year-old son, who had succeeded on a difficult exam. He bought him a small car which did not require a driver\u2019s license. I asked the man why he did not buy his son a set of tefillin instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll buy him tefillin some other time,\u201d was his offhand response. \u201cNow, I want to show my son that I admire him. I want to give him something he\u2019ll enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Shabbat eve, the boy went out with his new car. The parents went in their car for a night on the town. They lost their way and were surprised to find their son, driving his new car, with a strange girl seated at his side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, son!\u201d the surprised father rolled down his window. \u201cWhat\u2019s the story with your female friend? I give you such a special gift, and this is what you do with it?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boy revved up the engine and shot away from his father, without a backward glance. He traveled to an unknown destination and did not leave behind a trace. The father turned to the police department, but they could not help him, claiming that he was probably hiding out in his girlfriend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p><em>All too often, instead of educating children properly, parents give them weapons of destruction. They give them the ability to do wicked things and then eat their hearts out. With their distorted deeds, they alone are responsible for their children\u2019s downward spiral. It would behoove all parents to be more careful and calculated with their children\u2019s education. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven Away from Home An unaffiliated Jew wished to demonstrate his pride in his sixteen-year-old son, who had succeeded on a difficult exam. He bought him a small car which did not require a driver\u2019s license. I asked the man why he did not buy his son a set of tefillin instead. \u201cI\u2019ll buy him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}