{"id":119418,"date":"2026-10-27T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119418"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:36:39","slug":"119418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119418","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/infantrydort\/status\/2115241411687727194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InfantryDort<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.<br \/>\nThe wolf begged to be freed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was hungry,\u201d it said. \u201cThat is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone.<\/p>\n<p>Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.<br \/>\nBy winter, half the flock was dead.<\/p>\n<p>An old farmer finally asked him, \u201cWhy do you keep freeing it?\u201d<br \/>\nThe shepherd answered, \u201cBecause I refuse to become cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farmer looked at the empty field and said, \u201cThen understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy without judgment isn\u2019t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn\u2019t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InfantryDort There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture. The wolf begged to be freed. \u201cI was hungry,\u201d it said. \u201cThat is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!\u201d The shepherd cut the rope. The next night, three lambs were gone. Again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=119418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119419,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119418\/revisions\/119419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}