{"id":208,"date":"2012-06-04T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/?p=208"},"modified":"2012-06-04T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T14:07:34","slug":"essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_209\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 970px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-209\" title=\"tea garden\" src=\"http:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tea-garden-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tea-garden-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tea-garden-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>in the Japanese garden at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find<\/p>\n<p>the essence<\/p>\n<p>the choiceness<\/p>\n<p>the needle<\/p>\n<p>the crucial<\/p>\n<p>the few<\/p>\n<p>the true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;The Book of Tea&#8217; Okakura Kakuzo tells us that Laotse, the founder of Taoism, described how to find the essential by using the metaphor of a vacuum:\u00a0 &#8220;The usefulness of a water pitcher dwelt in the emptiness where the water might be put, not in the form of the pitcher or the material of which it was made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the Japanese garden at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ &nbsp; Find the essence the choiceness the needle the crucial the few the true &nbsp; In &#8216;The Book of Tea&#8217; Okakura Kakuzo tells us that Laotse, the founder of Taoism, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/essence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurabethmann.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}