{"id":720,"date":"2006-07-05T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/07\/life-humor\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T23:05:00","slug":"life-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/07\/life-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"Life: humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>from an email I received today (original source unknown):<br><strong><b><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;color:blue\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><b><span style=\"font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;color:blue\"><span>Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him..(Oh, man, this is so bad, it\u2019s good).. a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good chuckle amidst the all-too-serious world we\u2019ve created.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-115213721348473236?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from an email I received today (original source unknown): Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. 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