{"id":26709,"date":"2019-11-16T20:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2019-11-16T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T02:33:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/16\/word-of-the-day-511\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Maranasati<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">Of course, a huge amount of work to understand death has gone on over the millennia and starts with the straightforward observation that confronting the reality of death is the best way to strip it of its terror. An example is\u00a0maranasati, the\u00a0<a title=\"en.wikipedia.org\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mara%E1%B9%87asati\">Buddhist practice<\/a> of meditating on the prospect of one\u2019s own corpse in various states of decomposition. \u201cThis body, too,\u201d the monks recite, \u201csuch is its nature, such is its future, such its unavoidable fate.\u201d\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/transhumanist-eternal-life-no-thanks-id-rather-learn-not-to-fear-death\/2019\/11\/15\/74c566f2-072e-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Transhumanist\u2019 eternal life? No thanks, I\u2019d rather learn not to fear death<\/a>.&#8221; Arthur Brooks, <\/em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Intriguing word. I like it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maranasati: Of course, a huge amount of work to understand death has gone on over the millennia and starts with the straightforward observation that confronting the reality of death is the best way to strip it of its terror. An example is\u00a0maranasati, the\u00a0Buddhist practice of meditating on the prospect of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/16\/word-of-the-day-511\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26710,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions\/26710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}