{"id":528,"date":"2023-11-21T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-13-251-63-149.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2023-11-22T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:45:17","slug":"floral-medal-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/floral-medal-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Floral Medal of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember an incident that took place many years ago, when the Soka Gakkai was still a small organisation. My mentor, Josei Toda\u2019s business was in dire straits: we had no money, no capable staff, and were at rock bottom.<\/p>\n<p>One day, Mr Toda suddenly plucked a flower nearby and put it in my shirt pocket, as if it were a medal of honour. I was spending my days striving desperately and completely alone to serve, fight for, and protect my mentor.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Toda said to me: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for all the trouble I\u2019ve caused you. You\u2019re really doing a fine job, Daisaku.\u201d Some snickered at my floral medal of honour, but to me it was an award for kosen-rufu presented by my mentor in kosen-rufu. No tribute could have been greater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, Mr Toda suddenly plucked a flower nearby and put it in my shirt pocket, as if it were a medal of honour\u2026 Some snickered at my floral medal of honour, but to me it was an award for kosen-rufu presented by my mentor in kosen-rufu. No tribute could have been greater. <br \/><strong>CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657,"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":[61,49,22],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-21nov","category-lp-disciples-vow-articles","category-live-blog","tag-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\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}