{"id":34926,"date":"2016-04-14T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T02:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34926"},"modified":"2016-04-14T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T02:17:58","slug":"a-taxi-to-nirvana-rather-a-stairway-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34926","title":{"rendered":"A Taxi to Nirvana rather than a Stairway to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wedding Moon<\/p>\n<p>Off to Nirvana with Hameed this morning. Nirvana is a huge columbarium that has intrigued ever since my sister sent me the link. And, besides, if I can get to Nirvana for the price of a taxi drive, why not?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll go on about 10 minutes further to Skygreens, a vertical farm. Some evolution of this idea may well be the farm of the urban future and both Kate and I find it an interesting idea.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve hired Hameed by the hour, $30 Singapore, about $22 U.S. I&#8217;ll let you know how Nirvana was when we get back. I think that&#8217;s what bodhisattvas do, so both Kate and I will accept the honorific when we return to the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat cooler today. But, only relative to 92 feels 102. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have I mentioned that it&#8217;s hot here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Wedding Moon Off to Nirvana with Hameed this morning. Nirvana is a huge columbarium that has intrigued ever since my sister sent me the link. And, besides, if I can get to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=34926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Taxi to Nirvana rather than a Stairway to Heaven<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,1450,14,87,9,909,4329,3907,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-commentary-on-religion","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-garden","category-great-work","category-myth-and-story","category-plants","category-reimagining-faith","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions\/34928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}