{"id":1589,"date":"2009-05-11T07:32:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/05\/happy-birthday-buddha\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T07:32:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T14:32:20","slug":"happy-birthday-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/11\/happy-birthday-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4914\" target=\"_blank\">from Foreign Policy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/images\/090507_buddha_bday2.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong><span style=\"color: #8c182d; font-weight: bold\" class=\"fp_red\">Temple boys:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Young South Korean Buddhist devotees pray under rows of lotus lanterns at the Chogye Temple in Seoul on May 1 (one day ahead of when Buddha&#8217;s birthday is celebrated in that country this year). Buddha was born approximately 2,553 years ago, and the day, or days, on which Vesak is celebrated varies from country to country. About\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/ks.html#People\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #082d5b\">23 percent<\/a><\/u>\u00a0of South Korea&#8217;s population is Buddhist, the second-largest religion after Christianity, which is followed by 26 percent of the population. Just under half the population expresses no religious preference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4914\" target=\"_blank\">click to view full slideshow at ForeignPolicy.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Foreign Policy Temple boys:\u00a0Young South Korean Buddhist devotees pray under rows of lotus lanterns at the Chogye Temple in Seoul on May 1 (one day ahead of when Buddha&#8217;s birthday is celebrated in that country this year). Buddha was born approximately 2,553 years ago, and the day, or days, on which Vesak is celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}