{"id":5503,"date":"2010-03-22T14:15:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T06:15:27","slug":"to-reserve-seats-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/to-reserve-seats-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"To Reserve Seats or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/143.jpg?resize=114%2C114\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/143.jpg?w=114&amp;ssl=1 114w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/143.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A somewhat funny text exchange with a friend yesterday:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>E:<\/strong> Can you help me reserve two seats &#8211; for me and my friend, who is attending a Dharma talk for the first time?<br \/>\n<strong>S:<\/strong> Sorry leh&#8230; I don&#8217;t encourage reserving of seats for free public talks.<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> How come? I do so to encourage friends to come. It&#8217;s a good motivation.<br \/>\n<strong>S:<\/strong> It&#8217;s messy if everyone reserves seats for someone, and unfair to those who came earlier. (So, my motivation is good too hehe.) There are already sets reserved for VIPS too.<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> Are there differentiated VIP reservations?<br \/>\n<strong>S:<\/strong> Monastics are the VIPs (who get the best seats)&#8230; plus you and your friend&#8230; if I reserve for you two! As I&#8217;m not the organisers, I can&#8217;t decide who deserves VIP reservations!<br \/>\n<strong>E:<\/strong> Anyway, okay&#8230; I&#8217;ll let &#8216;destiny&#8217; take its course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat funny text exchange with a friend yesterday: E: Can you help me reserve two seats &#8211; for me&#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":[491],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-motivation","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","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=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}