{"id":125,"date":"2003-04-20T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2003\/04\/20\/125\/"},"modified":"2003-04-20T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T09:41:00","slug":"125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For you Christians, it&#8217;s Easter Sunday.  For you Jewish folk, it&#8217;s a day or two after Passover.  For Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and atheists and agnostics and whatever &#8212; well, it&#8217;s a nice Spring day here in the Northern Hemisphere.  And that&#8217;s still a sacred thing.<\/p>\n<p>I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, so I suppose that qualifies me as a Christian (although some Christians here in the USA might not agree with that!).  Despite the fact that I&#8217;m not tied to the myths and dogmas of any one religion anymore, I still feel the tidal surge upon the spirit that an important Christian holiday causes.  But I&#8217;m going to celebrate it in a Buddhist manner, by recalling a lesson the Buddha gave to his followers by just holding a flower up in front of them.  I just went outside with my cheap-o digital camera and took a snapshot of a flowering plant in front of the house.  In the spirit of that Buddhist lesson, let me share the picture here with you, and say no more.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/wpic1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For you Christians, it&#8217;s Easter Sunday. For you Jewish folk, it&#8217;s a day or two after Passover. For Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists and atheists and agnostics and whatever &#8212; well, it&#8217;s a nice Spring day here in the Northern Hemisphere. And that&#8217;s still a sacred thing. I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}