{"id":3524,"date":"2019-09-05T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:11:03","slug":"rocks-from-whom-one-learns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3524","title":{"rendered":"Rocks from whom one learns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48684500531\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"NFLDrock1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48684500531_ffa7df36c4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"NFLDrock1\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48684826731\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"NFLDrock4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48684826731_e2bb28aa04_z.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"640\" alt=\"NFLDrock4\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48684685047\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"NFLDrock3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48684685047_fe9053baa7_z.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"640\" alt=\"NFLDrock3\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nLast night I took this specimen along on a visit and our hostess said &#8220;oooh is this a <i>gift<\/i>?&#8221; and I was immediately protective. &#8220;Certainly not!&#8221; I said, and immediately regretted my vehemence in defense of <i>my<\/i> rock, as I hadn&#8217;t even photographed it yet. I did make its portrait today, and thus recognized a Lesson in Attachment&mdash;one I might have learned (but had clearly forgotten) with the Bodhidharma example cited at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3509\">Morphic Resonance post<\/a>. In what wise is this rock <i>my<\/i> rock? Why should I wish to hold on to it? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to appreciate it and pass it on so that others could enjoy its verisimilitude? Isn&#8217;t it enough to have discovered its several personalities and felt its agency? Yes, yes, 10,000 times yes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I took this specimen along on a visit and our hostess said &#8220;oooh is this a gift?&#8221; and I was immediately protective. &#8220;Certainly not!&#8221; I said, and immediately regretted my vehemence in defense of my rock, as I hadn&#8217;t even photographed it yet. I did make its portrait today, and thus recognized a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-images","category-metastuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}