{"id":276,"date":"2006-02-10T06:05:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T06:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/sign-of-the-times\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T06:05:44","slug":"sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2006\/02\/sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a&nbsp;forwarded email from a friend, I learned a bit about the Dalai Lama&#8217;s perspective on the modern world :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Paradox Of Our Age<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have bigger houses, but smaller families. <\/p>\n<p>More convenience, but less time.<\/p>\n<p>We have more degrees, but less sense.<\/p>\n<p>More knowledge, but less judgement.<\/p>\n<p>More medicines, but less healthiness.<\/p>\n<p>These are times of fast food &amp; slow digestion. <\/p>\n<p>We have been all the way to the moon &amp; back,<br \/>but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.<\/p>\n<p><em>His Holiness The XIVth Dalai Lama<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gives you something to think about, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a forwarded email from a friend, I learned a bit about the Dalai Lama&#8217;s perspective on the modern world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}