{"id":204768,"date":"2022-02-07T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=204768"},"modified":"2022-02-07T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T05:30:26","slug":"for-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/for-warmth\/","title":{"rendered":"For Warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hold my face between my hands.<br \/>\nNo, I am not crying.<br \/>\nI hold my face between my hands<br \/>\nto keep my loneliness warm \u2014<br \/>\ntwo hands protecting,<br \/>\ntwo hands nourishing,<br \/>\ntwo hands to prevent<br \/>\nmy soul from leaving me<br \/>\nin anger.<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Thich-Nhat-Hanh.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-204087 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Thich-Nhat-Hanh-e1644211615554.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a> Th\u00edch Nh\u1ea5t H\u1ea1nh (11 Oct 1926 \u2013 22 Jan 2022) was a Vietnamese Thi\u1ec1n Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, teacher, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the &#8220;father of mindfulness&#8221;, Nh\u1ea5t H\u1ea1nh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism. <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh\" >Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hold my face between my hands.<br \/>\nNo, I am not crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868,2554],"class_list":["post-204768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry","tag-thich-nhat-hanh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}