{"id":1907,"date":"2005-01-16T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2005-01-16T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T19:46:32","slug":"quest-for-the-lama-on-the-b766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/16\/quest-for-the-lama-on-the-b766\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest for the Lama on the B766"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broomielaw.com\/\">Cinders McLeod<\/a>&#8216;s recommendation, I just read Anne Donovan&#8217;s <em>Buddha Da<\/em>. It&#8217;s the story of an ordinary Glasgow house painter&#8217;s search for Buddhist enlightenment. It&#8217;s written in quick, brilliant dialect, and is packed with humour and pathos.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphmag.org\/CW\/dalai-lama.html\">excerpt<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphmag.org\/\">Ralph Magazine<\/a>. There are a few typos, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Cinders McLeod&#8216;s recommendation, I just read Anne Donovan&#8217;s Buddha Da. It&#8217;s the story of an ordinary Glasgow house painter&#8217;s search for Buddhist enlightenment. It&#8217;s written in quick, brilliant dialect, and is packed with humour and pathos. There&#8217;s an excerpt from Ralph Magazine. There are a few typos, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[1909,479],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-old-country","tag-buddha","tag-glasgow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-uL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}