{"id":8741,"date":"2011-02-14T23:14:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2011-02-14T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:21:27","slug":"encounter-with-a-non-psychic-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/02\/encounter-with-a-non-psychic-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounter with a Non-Psychic Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16.jpeg?resize=116%2C115\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16.jpeg?w=166&amp;ssl=1 166w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/16.jpeg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An old friend suddenly turned up in one of my regular classes.<br \/>\nWhen I asked an open question to all, he gave a wrong answer.<br \/>\nWhen I said something else, he added irrelevant comments.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked him later, as to why he suddenly decided to come,<br \/>\nhe confidently said he had an intuitive thought that I would need his help,<br \/>\nand he lent me a book on how to be psychic like him.<\/p>\n<p>But if he was psychic,<br \/>\nhe would know I wasn&#8217;t interested,<br \/>\nor convinced in his &#8216;mastery&#8217; of the book.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will put the book aside for now,<br \/>\nand gently break it to him when I return it to him,<br \/>\nthat he wasn&#8217;t really psychic&#8230; but do keep coming for the Dharma!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old friend suddenly turned up in one of my regular classes. When I asked an open question to all,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,111],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-delusion","tag-perception","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}