{"id":13283,"date":"2006-11-20T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T09:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2013-02-01T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T09:20:06","slug":"life-has-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2006\/11\/life-has-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Life : Has Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1394697_concert.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13287\" alt=\"1394697_concert\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1394697_concert.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1394697_concert.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/1394697_concert.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>From Depeche Mode&#8217;s &#8216;Touring the Angel&#8217; concert DVD \u2013 Journalist: What are the themes of your songs? Dave Gahan [lead singer]: Pain and more pain. Journalist: And why? Why pain? Dave Gahan [smiling\/grinning]: B&#8217;cos it&#8217;s painful. Life is painful.<\/p>\n<p>Life is of Dukkha, yes. That&#8217;s the First Noble Truth. To exist unenlightened is to have existential angst more than joy. But life is also the only opportunity to transcend it, to work towards Nirvana. On life being painful, see a song from DM&#8217;s album \u201cPlaying the Angel\u201d on it at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p54LT-3sm\">http:\/\/wp.me\/p54LT-3sm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Depeche Mode&#8217;s &#8216;Touring the Angel&#8217; concert DVD \u2013 Journalist: What are the themes of your songs? Dave Gahan [lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","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=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}