{"id":1782,"date":"2021-07-12T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T04:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2022-02-12T21:21:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T13:21:33","slug":"george-washington-and-the-cherry-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"George Washington and the Cherry Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Nancy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/George-Washington-and-the-Cherry-Tree.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you were a kid, did you fear that you would get into trouble with an adult for<br>something you did? Well, this is what happened to George Washington, the very first<br>American president, when he was just a young boy.<br>George Washington and the Cherry Tree<br>One day, when George Washington was six years old, his father came back from town<br>and brought a surprise for his son George. It was a hatchet, a small axe that could be<br>used with one hand. He said to George, \u201cHave it but be very careful with it! It\u2019s sharp.\u201d<br>When it was time for dinner, George\u2019s mother told him to put the hatchet in the corner.<br>During dinner, he kept looking at the hatchet and imagined that he was cutting many<br>things. \u201cGeorge,\u201d his mother said, \u201cCould you go cut up the twigs I have in the yard into<br>kindling?\u201d George was thrilled. He ran to the pile of twigs, which he wished were larger,<br>and began to chop them into small pieces. He cut the little pieces smaller and smaller.<br>Soon, there were no twigs left to cut. George then dashed over to one of the fence<br>posts that surrounded the field of his father\u2019s prized cherry trees. The hatchet cut nicely<br>into the fence post and left a hole in it.<br>\u201cWhat good is a hatchet if I don\u2019t have anything to cut?\u201d thought George. He circled<br>around the farm cutting anything he could find. Finally, he saw a young tree in his<br>father\u2019s orchard of cherry trees. \u201cThere are so many cherry trees, surely Father will not<br>miss one of them if I cut one down,\u201d said George to himself. So, he swung his hatchet<br>and the tree fell to the ground.<br>Later that evening, as they were sitting by the fire, Mr. Washington mentioned that it<br>looked like someone had chopped down one of his cherry trees. \u201cDid you do that,<br>George?\u201d asked his Father. George was still and quiet for a bit, but after a while, he<br>said, \u201cYes Father, I cannot tell a lie, I did chop down the cherry tree.\u201d<br>He was expecting his father to be very mad, but instead his father pulled him close and<br>held him tightly. \u201cI am so proud of you, son,\u201d said his father. \u201cIn a very difficult situation,<br>you still told the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/George-Washington-and-the-Cherry-Tree.pdf\">George-Washington-and-the-Cherry-Tree<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/George-Washington-and-the-Cherry-Tree.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[251],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-weekly","tag-nancy-weekly","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrmz2.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}