{"id":1030,"date":"2009-09-23T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:28:59","slug":"the-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/23\/the-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"The monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just home after a somewhat chaotic day at work (a co-worker is leaving on Friday and we&#8217;re nowhere near ready to take over his duties) and a fun evening of pizza and TV with American friend Milo and his family (SYTYCD, NCIS and Doctor Who).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, on my way home from work, I came out of the underpass to where there&#8217;s normally groups of people sitting on the benches drinking\/sleeping. What I saw this time, however, was different: A monk, in brown robes and sandals, laying a hand on a young black girl&#8217;s head, obviously praying for her. I halfway expected there to be commotion, stupid comments or resentment from the drinking onlookers, maybe embarrassment from the girl, but instead the scene was peaceful, and the girl was smiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just home after a somewhat chaotic day at work (a co-worker is leaving on Friday and we&#8217;re nowhere near ready to take over his duties) and a fun evening of pizza and TV with American friend Milo and his family (SYTYCD, NCIS and Doctor Who). A few weeks ago, 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":[1,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-observations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}