{"id":229,"date":"2011-03-27T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/five-zen-teachers\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:00","slug":"five-zen-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/03\/five-zen-teachers.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Zen Teachers"},"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><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-NsfNtbwnFJA\/TY-eWp7CdoI\/AAAAAAAADsk\/bC_01IAi7tM\/s1600\/five+zen+teachers.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-NsfNtbwnFJA\/TY-eWp7CdoI\/AAAAAAAADsk\/bC_01IAi7tM\/s640\/five+zen+teachers.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p>(From left to right) Melissa Myozen Blacker, Josh Munen Bartok, James Myoun Ford, George Bomun Bowman, David Daean Rynick. 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