{"id":123,"date":"2015-06-21T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-06-21T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T21:32:29","slug":"the-chubby-dragon-slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otaviopinto.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/21\/the-chubby-dragon-slayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The chubby dragon slayer."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%20chubby%20dragon%20slayer.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To honor G.K Chesterton, the great english writer, who passed away 79 years ago (completed in june, 14), I\u2019ve wrote the following small text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The chubby dragon slayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert always arrived very late at home and, unfortunately (like many blue-collar men), did not have enough time to enjoy the company of his 11 year old son, Tim.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, in a devotional way, he would always tell a story (skeptics call them \u00a0fairly tails) to put his son to sleep. It was not unusual to repeat a few, because he thought stories must always be retold until one can really understand them. He kept this routine untill he son started to grow up and lose the wisdom of childhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day, Robert started to tell again on of his \u201cnew\u201d old stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Once upon a time there was a Dragon that tormented&#8230;. \u2013 Suddenly, he was interrupted by his son:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Dad, I don\u2019t want to here this story again and I\u2019m sick of hearing \u201cfairy tales\u201d. I\u2019m not a baby anymore. I want real\u00a0 things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roberto, after a few seconds, said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Son, do you remember how the hero finally defeated the Dragon? He was courageous and fought the monster that everyone feared. Despite all the adversity and his small size, he managed to conquer the Dragon with intelligence and faith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; So what, Dad? There are no dragons. Fairy tails are not real \u2013 said Tim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Son, \u201cFairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten\u201d*. If you possess the qualities of that great Hero, you will be able to face all the dragons that appear in your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim looked at Robert, admiring his wisdom, embraced him and asked:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; Dad, who told you all those things?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; It was a chubby English man named G.K Chesterton. After Saint George, he was the greatest dragon slayer the world has ever seen \u2013 smiled his wise old father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*This quote has an interesting story. It got really famous after being wrongly \u00a0attributed to Chesterton by Neil Gaiman in his book \u201cCoraline\u201d. Gaiman wrote it down by memory and, without knowing it, ended up writing his own version of the quote. Despite not being Chesterton\u2019s literal words, It clearly follows the spirit of this text written by the great English writer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the\u00a0dragon\u00a0intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon\u201d.\u00a0(Tremendous Trifles. Book XVII: The Red Angel).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%20chubby%20dragon%20slayer.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/pt\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"pinterest\",\"email\",\"print\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"pt_BR\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"blogdootavio\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"The%20chubby%20dragon%20slayer.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>To honor G.K Chesterton, the great english writer, who passed away 79 years ago (completed in june, 14), I\u2019ve wrote the following small text. 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