{"id":3390,"date":"2013-04-20T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2013-05-25T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T02:49:48","slug":"dogs-and-buddha-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"Dogs and Buddha, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/theoutfit.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>A few days ago, I posted some thoughts about the dog-mu Zen koan.  Here&#8217;s a grungy shot of three real dogs, in their little front-yard triangle off of Market Street in Newark.  I started noticing these guys a few months ago, as I pass their humble abode every day on my way home from work.<\/p>\n<p>So, does the dog have Buddha nature?  I don&#8217;t think that these pooches particularly care about that, on this rainy spring afternoon.  All the more reason to suspect that they possibly DO have Buddha nature.  As much as any of their human (all too human) bosses might. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I posted some thoughts about the dog-mu Zen koan. Here&#8217;s a grungy shot of three real dogs, in their little front-yard triangle off of Market Street in Newark. I started noticing these guys a few months ago, as I pass their humble abode every day on my way home from work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}