{"id":388,"date":"2014-04-10T08:04:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2014-04-06T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:35:06","slug":"troublemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/troublemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Troublemakers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It could be,&#8221; as one of my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/mistakes.html\">posters<\/a> says, &#8220;that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.&#8221; On a brighter note (what isn&#8217;t?), perhaps a difficult person (colleague, relative, whatever) is here to make you a better person (&#8220;I&#8217;m getting you into heaven,&#8221; as my mom says). Buddhist teacher Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n explains in this entertaining little anecdote:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7qFi52FX1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m7qFi52FX1Q\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It could be,&#8221; as one of my favorite posters says, &#8220;that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.&#8221; On a brighter note (what isn&#8217;t?), perhaps a difficult person (colleague, relative, whatever) is here to make you a better person (&#8220;I&#8217;m getting you into heaven,&#8221; as my mom says). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}