{"id":3845,"date":"2026-09-29T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:51:23","slug":"lesson-1-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For any person working, the best thing about Saturday is not Saturday but Friday evening. And that\u2019s how it had been for Mr. Lu. Sunday to Friday\u2014work, work, and work. Then the glorious evening of Friday that gave the glimpse of a free day for a kind of free guy. But then Saturday would come, and with just a blink, the day would pass by. And back to the same old routine in a loop. But it was time it changed. One fine Saturday morning, as always, he went for a walk, and as always, he sat on a bench and took out a pouch that contained grains for fish. He loved feeding them. For some reason, it made him feel alive. It was the gate that took him away from the busy mechanical loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan! Alan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He looked around but could not find anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alan! Down here. Down here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He looked into the pond and almost screamed. The sound came from a fish. A fish! \u201cHe was definitely not a Dolittle,&#8221; he thought. &#8220;Or was he?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any person working, the best thing about Saturday is not Saturday but Friday evening. And that\u2019s how it had been for Mr. Lu. Sunday to Friday\u2014work, work, and work. Then the glorious evening of Friday that gave the glimpse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/?p=3845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3845\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-editing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}