{"id":49,"date":"2007-02-21T22:56:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/02\/21\/gautama\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T20:29:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T04:29:47","slug":"gautama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2007\/02\/21\/gautama\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"All hail William O'Neil.\">\n<p>&#8220;Stop!  Thief!&#8221; screams the jewelry store owner, staggering out into the street.  She lunges toward the shirtless police detective lounging on a bike stand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just stole our spring inventory,&#8221; she pants.  &#8220;Quick!  Aren&#8217;t you going to do something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will,&#8221; says Gautama firmly.  &#8220;I&#8217;ll ensure that the Great Wheel of Being continues turning, so that when his mortal husk decays&#8211;unless he&#8217;s done great goodness to equal his crime&#8211;he&#8217;ll return to life as something terrible, like an ant, or a poor person!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8230;  that sounds a lot like fatalism,&#8221; says the owner sourly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope,&#8221; says Gautama, &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8211;&#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, fixed-width; text-align: center;\">BUDDHA JUSTICE<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stop! Thief!&#8221; screams the jewelry store owner, staggering out into the street. She lunges toward the shirtless police detective lounging on a bike stand. &#8220;He just stole our spring inventory,&#8221; she pants. &#8220;Quick! Aren&#8217;t you going to do something?&#8221; &#8220;I will,&#8221; says Gautama firmly. &#8220;I&#8217;ll ensure that the Great Wheel of Being continues turning, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1737],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gautama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}