{"id":996,"date":"2025-07-11T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/?p=996"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:29:27","slug":"the-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/the-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-8b8f42d6\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-f1ba29c5\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zencomic-theodore-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A classic Zen story in comic form: a monk carries a stranded woman across a river to help her, drawing his companion&#8217;s silent disapproval for hours afterward \u2014 until he&#8217;s asked why he&#8217;s still carrying something set down long ago. Illustrated by Daniel Lafrance.\" class=\"wp-image-1005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zencomic-theodore-2-scaled.jpg 632w, https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zencomic-theodore-2-74x300.jpg 74w, https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zencomic-theodore-2-253x1024.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic Zen story in comic form: a monk carries a stranded woman across a river to help her, drawing his companion&#8217;s silent disapproval for hours afterward \u2014 until he&#8217;s asked why he&#8217;s still carrying something set down long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowlionmeditationcommunity.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}