{"id":985,"date":"2009-07-10T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=985"},"modified":"2009-07-10T22:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T05:53:13","slug":"holidays-and-holy-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Holidays and Holy Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One by one, I watch my Facebook friend&#8217;s newsfeed reports from holidays, honeymoons and high-paced adventures.\u00a0 I so enjoy the mobile picture uploads that chronicle beach get-aways, fine-dining and the occasional travel plan snafu.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast in what seems to be my <em>small<\/em> world, I managed to re-pot a lily in my Zen water garden during a brief moment of summertime activity.\u00a0 On an even more rare occasion I may make a trip to the garden center of my local hardware store &#8212; with an entourage of mobile phone not-so-candid pix that make it seem we were visiting the French Riviera.\u00a0 Speaking of which, Dad is visiting Paris, Prague and Vienna all this week!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-986\" title=\"zen-garden-fish-picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zen-garden-fish-picture.jpg\" alt=\"zen-garden-fish-picture\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zen-garden-fish-picture.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/zen-garden-fish-picture-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Stories could abound at the microscopic quality of my life in comparison to what seems to be a much larger macroeconomic playground of the world at large.\u00a0 Even so, it would still just be a story made up for the benefit of my own egoic mind; cerebral masturbation to stimulate and prolong the story of &#8216;me&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Or &#8230; I could step outside on this not-yet-so-hot summer morning, kneel beside my Zen water garden and feed a goldfish.\u00a0 Peace and stillness, without meaning or fanfare &#8230; save perhaps one little mobile phone upload!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One by one, I watch my Facebook friend&#8217;s newsfeed reports from holidays, honeymoons and high-paced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}