{"id":145,"date":"2010-05-30T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2010\/05\/30\/like-the-flowing-river\/"},"modified":"2020-05-26T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T07:16:15","slug":"like-the-flowing-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2010\/05\/30\/like-the-flowing-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Like the flowing river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a book by Paulo Coelho &#8220;LIke the flowing river&#8221;. As the title suggests, it is like the flowing river. You feel you are sitting on a sandbar in a river at the sunset hour just watching the river flow all around you ; listening to nature.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/reslib\/200707\/r157470_570911.jpg\" alt=\"The sandbar where the river is three metres below its normal level.\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are no earth-shattering ideas. Every idea in the book has evolved beautifully over time to be expressed in a gentle, inoffensive manner just as the river water caresses you.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the articles are based on the author&#8217;s personal experience. There are quotes from Bible and Bhagavad Gita as also from an obscure writer. There are some lengthy and profound stories, and some are terse, like a simple paragraph on Japanese tea ceremony.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like a river, it does not follow any predefined course, but simply makes a course for itself as it flows. Extending the simile further, at times you are just wading through shallow waters and there are times you are totally out of your depth.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a book by Paulo Coelho &#8220;LIke the flowing river&#8221;. As the title suggests, it is like the flowing river. You feel you are sitting on a sandbar in a river at the sunset hour just watching the river flow all around you ; listening to nature. There are no earth-shattering ideas. Every idea in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2010\/05\/30\/like-the-flowing-river\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Like the flowing river&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}