{"id":12990,"date":"2013-01-03T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T04:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T04:42:35","slug":"gathering-what-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2013\/01\/gathering-what-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering What Material?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12991\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/15.jpg?resize=272%2C185\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/15.jpg?w=272&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/15.jpg?resize=96%2C65&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/15.jpg?resize=145%2C100&amp;ssl=1 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From the movie &#8216;Being Flynn&#8217;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon:<\/strong> I&#8217;m doing the same thing here as you are, [spending night in homeless shelter] gathering material [for writing].<br \/>\n<strong>Nick:<\/strong> I&#8217;m not gathering material. This is my [working] life. [He works there as an administrator.]<br \/>\n<strong>Jon:<\/strong> Life is gathering material.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My take:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Life is for gathering material,<br \/>\nbut what material?<br \/>\nNot much of the materialistic &#8211;<br \/>\nyou need just enough to survive,<br \/>\nand you can&#8217;t bring that along when life ends anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Life is for gathering material<br \/>\nfor growth in personal wisdom,<br \/>\nfor sharing with universal compassion,<br \/>\nby thought, word and deed.<br \/>\nWhat else can life be for?<\/p>\n<p>Life is for gathering material<br \/>\nwherever you go,<br \/>\nwhatever you do.<br \/>\nEverything else is immaterial,<br \/>\njust decorations and distractions along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the movie &#8216;Being Flynn&#8217;: Jon: I&#8217;m doing the same thing here as you are, [spending night in homeless shelter]&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[57,417,40,58],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-compassion","tag-distraction","tag-life","tag-wisdom","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}