{"id":5963,"date":"2010-05-03T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2010-05-03T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T09:52:43","slug":"5963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/5963\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace! Brace! Brace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/1.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5966\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/1.gif?resize=253%2C229\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One who braces for the hard knocks of life<br \/>\nwill  find them less shocking and painful.<br \/>\nNot bracing for reality is to be  attached to fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stonepeace<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During naval exercises, sometimes there is this announcement over the broadcast system to simulate incoming missile attacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brace!<br \/>\nBrace!<br \/>\nBrace!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re expected to hold on to something steady then, in anticipation of sudden pitching and rolling of the ship. It just struck me that it&#8217;s one of the best accidental haikus I had ever come across. It&#8217;s the briefest too, with just\u00a0 three syllables, while having a very clear, compassionate and wise message! What do you brace yourself upon? What is your refuge? The unshakable Dharma I hope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article<\/strong>:<br \/>\nBrace Yourself for Samsara<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/05\/brace-yourself-for-samsara\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/05\/brace-yourself-for-samsara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One who braces for the hard knocks of life will find them less shocking and painful. Not bracing for reality&#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":[386,49,373,105,45],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-dharma","tag-dukkha","tag-refuge","tag-samsara","tag-stonepeace","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","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=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}