{"id":182,"date":"2008-09-30T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpdude.com\/test\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-09-30T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T07:51:00","slug":"the-4-noble-truths-in-modern-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/the-4-noble-truths-in-modern-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4 Noble Truths in Modern Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SOEYmQ-tUjI\/AAAAAAAABBQ\/fmacyg_8weE\/s1600-h\/Four_noble_truths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251505686162788914\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"263\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_8vF1TTyV5ww\/SOEYmQ-tUjI\/AAAAAAAABBQ\/fmacyg_8weE\/s400\/Four_noble_truths.jpg\" width=\"254\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was pondering how to explain Buddhism and the four noble truths to teenagers in modern language, with attention spans forged in the fires of MTV and vocabularies like totally taken from like US dramas or whatever. Here&#8217;s what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 4 Noble Truths in Modern Language<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life Sucks<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>It sucks because you like totally want stuff<\/li>\n<li>You can stop it sucking<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigview.com\/buddhism\/eightfoldpath.html\">Here&#8217;s how<\/a> (you muppet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four_Noble_Truths\">traditional form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pondering how to explain Buddhism and the four noble truths to teenagers in modern language, with attention spans forged in the fires of MTV and vocabularies like totally taken from like US dramas or whatever. Here&#8217;s what I came up with: The 4 Noble Truths in Modern Language Life Sucks It sucks because you like totally want stuff You can stop it sucking Here&#8217;s how (you muppet) traditional form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xvDN-2W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.integrationtraining.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}