{"id":2963,"date":"2010-05-29T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2010-05-29T15:07:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T20:07:30","slug":"add-buddha-to-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Add Buddha to the Birthday List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May birthdays:<br \/>\nMay 7   Noi naa<br \/>\nMay 20 Mom<br \/>\nMay 21 Leela<br \/>\nMay 23 Christian<br \/>\nMay 25 me<\/p>\n<p>and yesterday was not only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ves%C4%81kha\">Buddha&#8217;s birthday, but also his day of enlightenment, and the day he died<\/a>. (More specifically, that day is the full moon of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, but it happened to fall on May 28 this year.)<\/p>\n<p>We were lucky enough to be invited to go to temple with some friends of Sue&#8217;s.<br \/>\nWe donated money for a lotus flower, incense, and candle and walked around the temple three times with the rest of the procession, meditating on our own good fortune and how to be a better person. Easier said than done! It was hard to stay focused for even one go around the temple &#8211; but I appreciated being part of a large group of people making that effort.<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2886.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before entering the temple grounds - you can see that lots of people are taking advantage of this holiday to sell food and trinkets.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zHlZphLPXiE]<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2896.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold leaf being applied to a reclining Buddha.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2897.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything about the evening was lovely.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_2909.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The light was especially gorgeous. Very fitting for &quot;right&quot; thinking.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May birthdays: May 7 Noi naa May 20 Mom May 21 Leela May 23 Christian May 25 me and yesterday was not only Buddha&#8217;s birthday, but also his day of enlightenment, and the day he died. (More specifically, that day &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}