{"id":1503,"date":"2015-01-22T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-01-21T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:21:31","slug":"story-hope-courage-sacrifice-last-leaf-o-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/story-hope-courage-sacrifice-last-leaf-o-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of hope, courage and sacrifice &#8211; Last Leaf by O Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1507\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/story-hope-courage-sacrifice-last-leaf-o-henry\/lastleaf\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg?fit=256%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"256,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lastleaf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg?fit=256%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1507\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"lastleaf\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lastleaf.jpg?resize=65%2C65&amp;ssl=1 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Last Leaf is a short story by Henry its one of the Classics. Being a short story can be read in 10 min max but the effect of the story will be there forever. The story is of hope, courage and sacrifice. Without disclosing much,\u00a0I recommend ever one to read it online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hueber.de\/sixcms\/media.php\/36\/last-leaf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a> or if you want to see a short video below based on it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_xUFOPSUf0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Leaf is a short story by Henry its one of the Classics. Being a short story can be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,97,100,99],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-courage","tag-hope","tag-last-leaf","tag-sacrifice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3778,"url":"https:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/a-game-made-of-concentric-geometry\/","url_meta":{"origin":1503,"position":0},"title":"A Game Made Of Concentric Geometry","author":"saifuddin","date":"May 7, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Ripple is the quietest arcade game I have built. 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