{"id":1997,"date":"2008-07-25T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2008-07-25T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T02:50:00","slug":"dalai-lama-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowlionpub.com\/pages\/N83_2.html\">an essay<\/a> online talking about hosting the Dalai Lama back in the day.  I found a certain resonance, even though I&#8217;ll never have that simple and straightforward experience with the man.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to set fingers to keyboard, and even pen to paper (how primitive!), to describe his personal magnetism. I&#8217;ve failed each time.  Suffice it to say that this is a man who, when he enters a stadium, thousands of people become silent and rise to their feet unprompted.<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;Dalai Lama&#8221; literally translates as &#8220;Ocean of Wisdom,&#8221; and there is something oceanic in his teachings.  Something akin to watching the tide, as he shifts though his mind to explain a difficult concept or to answer a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an essay online talking about hosting the Dalai Lama back in the day. I found a certain resonance, even though I&#8217;ll never have that simple and straightforward experience with the man.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to set fingers to keyboard, and even pen to paper (how primitive!), to describe his personal magnetism. I&#8217;ve failed each time. <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1997\">Dalai Lama<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}