{"id":122,"date":"2009-06-10T18:28:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2009-06-10T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:28:45","slug":"special-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Special People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3613703693\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3592\/3613703693_a5dfe4216f.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3613703693\/\">Special People<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s very rare that I put my picture up on this blog and just as rare that we have Buddhist monks come to stay, (in fact it&#8217;s a first for both), but we had such a lovely time when these three were here last week that, with special permission, I&#8217;m posting this shot to show that it isn&#8217;t all birds, wine, weekend breaks and family holidays here at the Quinta; good times, yes, but sometimes there&#8217;s an inner peace that can best be gained by silence &#8230; Ajahn Sumedho, Tan Subhaddo and Dhammiko were relaxing here before running a 5 day retreat further north and it was a real treat for us to have staying in our home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special People, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. It&#8217;s very rare that I put my picture up on this blog and just as rare that we have Buddhist monks come to stay, (in fact it&#8217;s a first for both), but we had such a lovely time when these three were here last week that, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}