{"id":1089,"date":"2010-01-12T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v6\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2010-01-12T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:27:26","slug":"refusing-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/refusing-a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusing a Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this fantastic quote today, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clivegott.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clive Gott<\/a>, from a conversation between Buddha and one of his followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf I offer a gift and you refuse that gift, to whom then does the gift belong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The follower answered \u201cIt belongs still to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo,\u201d said the Buddha \u201cif I offer an insult and you refuse to accept it, to whom then does that insult belong?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this fantastic quote today, courtesy of Clive Gott, from a conversation between Buddha and one of his followers: \u201cIf I offer a gift and you refuse that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}