{"id":3246,"date":"2023-11-22T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-13-251-63-149.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:31:14","slug":"article-mrs-ikeda-the-strong-woman-behind-mr-ikeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/article-mrs-ikeda-the-strong-woman-behind-mr-ikeda\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Mrs Ikeda &#8211; The Strong Woman Behind Sensei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recall as if it were yesterday what my wife said on the day I assumed the Soka Gakkai presidency. &#8220;I assume today is the funeral of the Ikeda family. Please give your life to Soka Gakkai and your fellow members.&#8221; Witnessed by 20,000 members under the bright sky, my inauguration was held at the Nihon University Auditorium. In the evening, my family shared a humble supper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I said to my wife, &#8220;I entrust our children to you, and my hope for them to live with Soka Gakkai and share the destiny of the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She replied, &#8220;I know exactly what you are asking. That will be the most authentic life for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I continued, &#8220;Let them acquire the essence of the Soka Gakkai spirit: &#8216;iron will&#8217; and &#8216;iron-like patience&#8217; so as to achieve &#8216;iron-like victory&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, she nodded, &#8220;You&#8217;re right. I&#8217;ll see that they learn from the lives of President Makiguchi and President Toda.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall as if it were yesterday what my wife said on the day I assumed the Soka Gakkai Presidency\u2026 <br \/><strong>CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-22nov","category-lp-youth-family-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}