{"id":3254,"date":"2023-11-22T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-13-251-63-149.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T03:27:58","slug":"article-president-ikedas-example-became-the-model-i-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/article-president-ikedas-example-became-the-model-i-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] \u201cPresident Ikeda\u2019s Example Became the Model I Followed.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mieko Udagawa, SGI-Belgium Women\u2019s Division General Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 1962, President Ikeda came to Paris. At the time, however, I really didn\u2019t know much about him. My son and I met him at Dr Yamazaki\u2019s house. President Ikeda picked up an apple that was on the table and handed it to my son, but my son protested, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t want it, I don\u2019t want it.\u201d I was flustered, and told him sharply to accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Before I could continue, President Ikeda bent down to my son\u2019s eye level and said directly to him: \u201cI\u2019ll give it to your mother, so you can have it later.\u201d I was very touched by President Ikeda\u2019s kindness and concern. The fact that he would try to please a child, rather than force something on him, left a deep impression on me.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, President Ikeda\u2019s example became the model I followed. I became more optimistic and started praying sincerely for my husband\u2019s success. Then, out of the blue, my husband said he would start practising Nichiren Buddhism, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Ikeda arrived at Paris on 1962, Mieko and her son visited him at Dr Yamazaki\u2019s house. President Ikeda picked up an apple to hand it to her son, however her son protested, saying: \u201cI don\u2019t want it, I don\u2019t want it.\u201d\u2026 <br \/><strong>CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3229,"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":[62,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-22nov","category-hs-treasuring-individuals-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\/3254","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=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}