{"id":1371,"date":"2022-12-09T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:55:04","slug":"buddha-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Carolyn Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the gecko<br>that is not<br>on the white<br>washed wall,<br>then is,<br>and when you turn<br>to look again<br>is gone,<br>so too, my desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wind batters<br>the door bolted<br>against it.<br>In the mountains,<br>sun rains.<br>Hot. Fierce.<br>No clouds, no mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parched earth<br>turns to dust,<br>relinquishes thirst:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">blessed nirvana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in Sacred Journey, v. 61, #3, Summer 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun rains\/ Hot. Fierce.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Mike Soika<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-december-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}