{"id":5210,"date":"2010-02-27T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T15:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2010-02-28T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T16:00:01","slug":"life-door-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/life-door-veil\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, Door &#038; Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5211\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/121.jpg?resize=95%2C141\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/121.jpg?w=95&amp;ssl=1 95w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/121.jpg?resize=65%2C96&amp;ssl=1 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From &#8216;Prince of Persia&#8217; by A. B. Sina et al:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence; without killing him) No one gave me the power to  take life.<br \/>\nPeacock: (When lion pounces on Guiv again and is slashed dead) No one gave you  power to spare life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We give ourselves the power to take or spare lives<\/span> from moment to moment. Choose mindfully!<\/p>\n<p>Peacock: Why open [the door]?<br \/>\nGuiv: Because, Peacock, that&#8217;s what a door is for. (Forces it open and  almost falls into a pit)<br \/>\nPeacock: A door is also to be closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A door is for opening and closing at the right time in the right way<\/span>, and may or may not hide something. Open and close mindfully!<\/p>\n<p>Man 1: Why is he veiled, anyway?<br \/>\nMan 2: They say he&#8217;s too ugly to show his face.<br \/>\nMan 3: I heard he&#8217;s too beautiful to show his face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments: <\/strong>A veil can hide ugliness or beauty, but why must it hide only &#8216;extremes&#8217;? It can also conceal plainness or something else. But why speculate at all? <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Why not just unveil the truth mindfully<\/span> if you can?<\/p>\n<p>[ad#persia1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Prince of Persia&#8217; by A. B. Sina et al: Guiv: (Injuring a lion that almost killed him in defence;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[57,89],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-compassion","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","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=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}