{"id":227,"date":"2009-10-16T05:11:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-10-16T05:11:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:11:18","slug":"this-is-my-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"This is my path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-229\" title=\"84551421\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/4men-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"84551421\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On the shuttle there were 4 sales-types who&#8217;d just come from their annual meeting. They were loud and hearty and swell-fellow-well-met. I was texting. One of them apologized for being annoying. I said they weren&#8217;t. They told me where they&#8217;d been, and asked where I was going. &#8220;Actually, I&#8217;m going to a silent zen retreat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first they themselves were newly silent. Then they were so funny, making jokes, asking about sweat lodges and spa treatments. They seemed a little interested, but having fun with the concept. &#8220;What is your goal?&#8221; one of them asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then they were completely silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the shuttle there were 4 sales-types who&#8217;d just come from their annual meeting. They were loud and hearty and swell-fellow-well-met. I was texting. One of them apologized for being annoying. I said they weren&#8217;t. They told me where they&#8217;d been, and asked where I was going. &#8220;Actually, I&#8217;m going to a silent zen retreat.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}