{"id":11228,"date":"2015-12-07T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:24:59","slug":"on-the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2015\/12\/on-the-good-life.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Good Life"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/12\/RoberWaldinger-300x300.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/12\/RoberWaldinger-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"RoberWaldinger-300x300\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11230\"><\/a><br>\nA talk on the good life by Robert Waldinger, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boundlesswayzen.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Boundless Way<\/a> Zen priest and psychiatrist, who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development as Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-7zAkwAOYg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk on the good life by Robert Waldinger, a Boundless Way Zen priest and psychiatrist, who directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development as Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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