{"id":1342,"date":"2009-02-25T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2009-02-26T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:21:38","slug":"our-many-splendoured-rainbow-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/02\/our-many-splendoured-rainbow-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Many Splendoured Rainbow Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/photo26-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the Bell Tower. (At least, it seemed so.) I felt compelled to whip out my phone to snap it&#8230; and so I did. Then as I walked on, I wondered&#8230; What now? So what? What do I do with the picture? Should I blog it? What should I write about it? Here it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A rainbow!<br \/>\nMuch ado about &#8216;something&#8217;,<br \/>\nthat swiftly becomes &#8216;nothing&#8217;,<br \/>\nthat is none other than &#8216;transience&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Much ado because I snapped it,<br \/>\nas if I could hold on to it,<br \/>\nas if I could do some good with it.<br \/>\nIs this reminder of transience good enough?<\/p>\n<p><em>As Stonepeace put it,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Because everything changes from moment to moment,<br \/>\nwe should treasure everything in this moment.<br \/>\nBecause everything changes from moment to moment,<br \/>\nwe should not be attached to anything in this moment. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Kong Meng San monastery in the evening, I happened to turn around and saw a rainbow arching towards the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[75,59,45],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photojournal","tag-attachment","tag-impermanence","tag-stonepeace","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}