{"id":3518,"date":"2007-02-03T17:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/03\/3518"},"modified":"2007-02-03T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T22:12:02","slug":"the-big-five-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/the-big-five-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Five-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A lot of people are disturbed by this image, so I had better explain it. According to the ancient classical meditative traditions of India, a person&#8217;s life is divided into twenty-five year sections: during the first twenty-five years, one is a student. For the second twenty-five years, one becomes a householder, and tends to worldly affairs. At age fifty, one should become a forest dweller; one should go live in a forest and think only of God. I have always liked this system, and have tried to live according to it. But when I turned fifty, it was obvious that it would be very inconvenient, both for myself and for many other people, if I went to live in a forest. First, in the state where I live it&#8217;s illegal to live in the forests, and if I tried to do so I would probably end up being a jail dweller instead. So I decided that the forest in which I would live, thinking of God, would be in my mind, and that&#8217;s what this painting is about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>~ Bill Perry, Artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/moleculefarm.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"external\">the molecule farm<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moleculefarm.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/big-5-oh.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Five-Oh by Bill Perry\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single piece of Bill Perry&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/I-am-selling-one-original-drawing-each-week_W0QQitemZ170075423315QQihZ007QQcategoryZ20158QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item170075423315\" rel=\"external\">artwork<\/a> is auctioned off on eBay once a week. Bidding starts at only $2!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\/\" rel=\"external\">chasmyn<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people are disturbed by this image, so I had better explain it. According to the ancient classical meditative traditions of India, a person&#8217;s life is divided into twenty-five year sections: during the first twenty-five years, one is a student. For the second twenty-five years, one becomes a householder, and tends to worldly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}