{"id":3907,"date":"2009-10-05T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2009-10-07T02:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:24:37","slug":"why-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/why-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Beaches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1.jpg?resize=227%2C149\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Used to wonder<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s so wonderful<br \/>\nabout the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Till I realised<br \/>\nit is the meeting point<br \/>\nof many things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Not just surfboards,<br \/>\nNot just volleyballs,<br \/>\nNot just deck chairs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of the vast sky,<br \/>\nOf the vast sea,<br \/>\nOf the vast land&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of calm of waves,<br \/>\nOf turmoil at times,<br \/>\nOf paradoxes of life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of sinking suns,<br \/>\nOf rising moons,<br \/>\nOf cycles of nature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of impermanence of tides,<br \/>\nOf disappointment of dissolving castles,<br \/>\nOf unsubtantiality of it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of the peace from knowing this,<br \/>\nOf the insight from seeing this,<br \/>\nOf the bliss behind it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used to wonder what&#8217;s so wonderful about the beach&#8230; Till I realised it is the meeting point of many things&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,47,49,146],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-anatta","tag-anicca","tag-dukkha","tag-paradox","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}