{"id":10020,"date":"2022-02-21T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T20:20:46","slug":"new-work-from-a-buddhist-source-17-12-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/new-work-from-a-buddhist-source-17-12-17\/","title":{"rendered":"New Work from a Buddhist source 17\/12\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Three Blind Men and an Elephant<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Three friends blind since birth stumbled upon an elephant<\/p>\n<p>They knew not what the creature was and in turns touched it<\/p>\n<p><i>It is a lion I have touched lions before<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No you are mistaken my friend it is a primate magnificent<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The third man touched the elephant<\/p>\n<p>He did not speak<\/p>\n<p><i>Why are you silent my friend?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It has been an hour and you have not spoken<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have said many words to you both but you have chosen not to listen to me<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What is this creature?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Please give us your answer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We have been friends for many years and have travelled many miles together<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We share honesty with each other<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Let your experience of this creature enlighten you<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My answer is no more\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Blind Men and an Elephant Three friends blind since birth stumbled upon an elephant They knew not what the creature was and in turns touched it It is a lion I have touched lions before No you are mistaken my friend it is a primate magnificent The third man touched the elephant He did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10021,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}