{"id":14,"date":"2007-04-03T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T13:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/DavidGuiza.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!86BC9AEC7F264ADF!650.entry"},"modified":"2008-10-05T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T11:19:19","slug":"the-puma-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/2007\/04\/the-puma-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puma monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A couple of days ago, I decided to go with Evula to one of Holland&#8217;s main spring atractions&#8230; the Keukenhof gardens. Filled with thousands and thousands of blooming flowers of any imaginable color, it was quite a spectacle to see.<\/div>\n<div>But what caught my attention the most, were not the tulips, or the orchids, or anything of the like&#8230; it was this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buddhist_monk\">Buddhist monk<\/a>, who&#8217;s\u00a0<em>&#8220;lifestyle is shaped so as to support\u00a0his spiritual practice, to live a simple, happy and meditative life, and attain Nirvana&#8221;<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Wikipedia (the new &#8220;Holy bible&#8221;), tells us that the robes of a Buddhist monk\u00a0come from <em>&#8220;the idea of wearing cheap clothes just to protect the body from weather and climate&#8230;.\u00a0Since dark red was the cheapest colour in Kashmir, the Tibetan tradition has red robes. In the south, yellow played the same role<\/em>&#8220;.<\/div>\n<div>Pay close attention to the fact that they DO NOT\u00a0mention\u00a0ANYTHING about the <em><strong>shoes<\/strong><\/em>&#8230; so our monk decided to follow his vouws in style, with some very\u00a0cool Pumas\u00a0that match his &#8216;raggedy-poor-man&#8217;s-robes&#8217;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Puma Monk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluehaired.com\/imagenes\/puma_monk.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.services.spaces.live.com\/CollectionWebService\/c.gif?cid=-8737938836469429537&amp;page=RSS%3a+The+Puma+monk&amp;referrer=\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute\" src=\"http:\/\/c.live.com\/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;NA=1149&amp;PI=73329&amp;RF=&amp;DI=3919&amp;PS=85545&amp;TP=davidguiza.spaces.live.com&amp;GT1=DavidGuiza\" alt=\"\" width=\"0px\" height=\"0px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I decided to go with Evula to one of Holland&#8217;s main spring atractions&#8230; the Keukenhof gardens. Filled with thousands and thousands of blooming flowers of any imaginable color, it was quite a spectacle to see. But what caught my attention the most, were not the tulips, or the orchids, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bluehairing","tag-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehair.co\/corner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}