{"id":534,"date":"2019-11-19T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/zen\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T16:30:00","slug":"zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/zen\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/zen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15201\" \/>Alan Watts was a philosopher and an author who popularized Zen Buddhism in America. Zen: A Short Introduction with Illustrations by the Authoris a wonderful addition to his published work. It&#8217;s minimalist in word and design (clocking in at 70 pages), and features illustrations by Watts. A perfect introduction to Zen and Watts, in a format perfect for collecting or gift giving.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldlibrary.com\/Books\/ProductDetails\/tabid\/64\/SKU\/85882\/Default.aspx#\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781608685882?aff=MagicalBuffet\">Shop your local indie bookstore<\/a><---This is an affiliate link to IndieBound, which supports independent bookstores throughout the United States. If you use this link to purchase the book, I will make a small commission at no additional cost to you.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191111_152854-264x300.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15203\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, but mighty review, for a small, but mighty book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}