{"id":7808,"date":"2010-05-06T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2010-05-06T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T20:46:59","slug":"i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"I know why the caged bird sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving for India several years ago when my life took on new travels, new adventures, new expansions but Asia and India are always present in my imagination. I traveled there with Theroux in his books. I turned my head at Jazz Fest to see my friend who had just returned from India wearing an orange sari with a flowing pink scarf &#8211; colors that are not present enough in our world. I do my yoga and listen to Michele interpret the Sanskrit and ground us deeper in the teachings of a distant land. So when <a href=\"www.sandraburshell.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sandy Burshell<\/a> sent an invitation to her art exhibit and had this on the postcard &#8211; I was struck by the Giac Lam Lagoda, a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh city, one of the oldest temples there and despite all reasons to be pinching pennies, I threw care to the wind and bought it for the LaLa:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7809\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=7809\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MysticLight.jpg?fit=376%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"376,576\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;10&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1268423495&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;37&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MysticLight\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MysticLight.jpg?fit=376%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7809\" title=\"MysticLight\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MysticLight.jpg?resize=376%2C576\" alt=\"MysticLight\" width=\"376\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MysticLight.jpg?w=376&amp;ssl=1 376w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MysticLight.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving for India several years ago when my life took on new travels, new adventures, new expansions but Asia and India are always present in my imagination. I traveled there with Theroux in his books. I turned my head at Jazz Fest to see my friend who had just returned from India wearing an orange sari with a flowing pink scarf &#8211; colors that are not present enough in our world. I do&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-21W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7814,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}