{"id":348,"date":"2011-12-31T00:33:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/www.soulmatesecret.com\/wabisabilove\/?p=348"},"modified":"2014-06-22T19:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:18:30","slug":"wabi-sabi-close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/2011\/12\/31\/wabi-sabi-close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabi Sabi Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wabisabilove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-30-at-4.31.52-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-351 alignleft\" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-12-30 at 4.31.52 PM\" src=\"\/wabisabilove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-30-at-4.31.52-PM-257x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-30-at-4.31.52-PM-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-30-at-4.31.52-PM.png 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a>This large wooden Buddha lives at one of our favorite restaurants in San Diego, Isabel\u2019s Cantina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isabelscantina.com\/isabel-cantina.php\" target=\"_blank\">(http:\/\/www.isabelscantina.com\/isabel-cantina.php<\/a>). I have sat next to this Buddha literally hundreds of times over the past 10 years, always admiring the serene smile of the Buddha\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>While having breakfast there this morning, I suddenly became aware of the long vertical Wabi Sabi cracks on the Buddha. I know the cracks have always been there, but today I feel like I really saw them for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what caused the cracks, but for me the cracks make this Buddha more ancient and more beautiful. Who or what in your life can you choose to find more beautiful, cracks and all?<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This large wooden Buddha lives at one of our favorite restaurants in San Diego, Isabel\u2019s Cantina (http:\/\/www.isabelscantina.com\/isabel-cantina.php). I have sat next to this Buddha literally hundreds of times over the past 10 years, always admiring the serene smile of the Buddha\u2019s face. While having breakfast there this morning, I suddenly became aware of the long [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arielleford.com\/wabisabilove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}