{"id":1678,"date":"2014-11-22T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:18:11","slug":"grasping-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/all\/grasping-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"grasping the essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bannerman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Bannerman.jpg\" alt=\"Bannerman\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Lloyd Bannerman [ 1915 &#8211; 2014 ]. He was the first to teach me what it meant to &#8220;grasp the essence&#8221; or what is known in the Japanese Zen tradition as Kensh\u014d [ (\u898b\u6027) Ken meaning &#8220;seeing\u201d and sh\u014d meaning &#8220;nature or essence\u201d].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Lloyd Bannerman [ 1915 &#8211; 2014 ]. He was the first to teach me what it meant to &#8220;grasp the essence&#8221; or what is known in the Japanese Zen tradition as Kensh\u014d [ (\u898b\u6027) Ken meaning &#8220;seeing\u201d and sh\u014d meaning &#8220;nature or essence\u201d]. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-my-stuff","category-the-beautiful","category-the-good","category-the-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billtoole.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}