{"id":3335,"date":"2021-11-27T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T10:18:20","slug":"story-the-potential-of-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/3335\/","title":{"rendered":"The Potential of Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/plants-1252259_1920-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3491\" width=\"408\" height=\"412\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThe\nPotential of Weeds\u201d is a fable about principles. Every principle applies only\nin the context from which it originates, and a change in circumstances makes it\nnecessary to review the principles which previously applied. Principles which\ndictate how to think and act in a particular situation may impede development\nif they are carried over to different situations. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were silent for a long time. Then the little\ndandelion asked his much larger neighbour, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m growing\nmy taproot.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m doing too. But I\u2019ve made no progress for days. My\nroot has hit a stone.\u201d \u201cJust do what the couch grass does and grow your root\naround the stone. Grow more roots if necessary,\u201d said the big dandelion. \u201cI can\u2019t\ndo that,\u201d said the small dandelion. \u201cA taproot is a taproot.\u201d And he never grew\nany larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Potential of Weeds\u201d is a fable about principles. Every principle applies only in the context from which it originates, and a change in circumstances makes it necessary to review the principles which previously applied. Principles which dictate how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/27\/3335\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,172,152,156,151,224,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-economy","category-growing-up","category-identity","category-learning","category-personal-development","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}