{"id":22220,"date":"2013-10-09T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=22220"},"modified":"2013-10-09T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:37:41","slug":"the-inexhaustible-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/the-inexhaustible-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: The Inexhaustible Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">I was working in Seattle this last week and while wandering around on Sunday I realized I was close to burial place of Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon Lee. I was a huge fan growing up and so I decided to go and pay my respects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It was a rather odd experience. While I was at their graves praying for about fifteen minutes there was a steady stream of people coming to have their pictures taken with the headstones! Bizarre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Anyway, there was a quotation on Brandon Lee&#8217;s tombstone which I found rather challenging and a good candidate for Wise Words on Wednesday this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandon_Lee\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22221 aligncenter\" alt=\"Graves\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Graves.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Graves.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Graves-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Because we don&#8217;t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really&#8230; How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0The Sheltering Sky,\u00a0Paul Bowles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working in Seattle this last week and while wandering around on Sunday I realized I was close to burial place of Bruce Lee and his son, Brandon Lee. I was a huge fan growing up and so I decided to go and pay my respects. It was a rather odd experience. While I was at their graves praying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[2415,2414,2417,2416],"class_list":["post-22220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-brandon-lee","tag-bruce-lee","tag-paul-bowles","tag-the-sheltering-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22229,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions\/22229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}