{"id":653,"date":"2014-06-28T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/?p=653"},"modified":"2014-06-28T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T03:39:00","slug":"ilearn-june-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/ilearn-june-29\/","title":{"rendered":"iLearn &#8211; June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is simple again. A farmer explains this way: &#8220;You cannot make the clouds rain more, you cannot make the sun shine less. They are just nature&#8217;s gifts &#8212; take it or leave it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the things around you are seen as gifts, they are no longer a means to an end; they are the means\u00a0and\u00a0the end. And thus, a cow-herder will tend to his animals with the compassion of a father, a village woman will wait 3 hours for a delayed bus without a trace of anger, a child will spend countless hours fascinated by stars in the galaxy, and finding his place in the vast cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>So with today&#8217;s modernized tools at your ready disposal, don\u2019t let yourself zoom obliviously from point A to point B on the highways of life; try walking the backroads of the world, where you will witness a profoundly inextricable connection with all living things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is simple again. A farmer explains this way: &#8220;You cannot make the clouds rain more, you cannot make the sun shine less. They are just nature&#8217;s gifts &#8212; take it or leave it.&#8221; When the things around you are seen as gifts, they are no longer a means to an end; they are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ilearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harishkrishnan.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}