{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"loveydoe's status on Thursday, 10-Jul-14 05:22:58 UTC","author_name":"loveydoe","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/loveydoe","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3518453","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/4320\" class=\"url\" title=\"RDN's Lucifer\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">nerthos<\/span><\/a><\/span> His idea is that here in the West we are brought at birth into a place with a puritanical work ethic which only seems to reward us after we are too old to enjoy it.  There is a fable about an ant and a grasshopper in which the ant works all day and survives but the grasshopper dies because he plays a fiddle instead of hoarding food.  Some have rewritten the story, giving the grasshopper a job at the end in a different insect's house to play dinner music for a wage of food, thus leaning the moral in favor of &quot;following your cutie mark&quot;.  The ant is following his vocation by working all day, but that's not the vocation of the cricket."}