{"id":1495,"date":"2009-03-09T21:20:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2009-03-09T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:22:49","slug":"from-worldly-blue-lights-to-pure-golden-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/03\/from-worldly-blue-lights-to-pure-golden-light\/","title":{"rendered":"From Worldly Blue Lights to Pure Golden Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1493\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/photo31-225x300.jpg?resize=165%2C219\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"219\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1494\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/photo32-225x300.jpg?resize=165%2C219\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"219\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/photo34-225x300.jpg?resize=165%2C219\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walking near Stirling Road, strange blue lights on a long and incredibly zig-zag walkway in the dark caught my eye. (My phone camera couldn&#8217;t capture the whole of it.) I went forward to take a closer look, for a moment forgetting that I&#8217;m in the area to attend to a friend&#8217;s Mother&#8217;s wake. Will I be distracted by foreign lights when it&#8217;s my turn to die? Which way would I &#8216;walk&#8217;? May I be mindful of Amitabha Buddha, may I see his golden light, may I walk his way to his Pureland. Amituofo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking near Stirling Road, strange blue lights on a long and incredibly zig-zag walkway in the dark caught my eye&#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":[42,237,89,41],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photojournal","tag-amitabha-buddha","tag-light","tag-mindfulness","tag-pure-land","wpcat-341-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","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=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}