{"id":4501,"date":"2012-01-13T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:43:02","slug":"4501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/01\/4501.html","title":{"rendered":"Tasting Chicago&#8217;s Buddhism"},"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\/2012\/01\/gyomay-kubose1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4503\" title=\"gyomay kubose\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2012\/01\/gyomay-kubose1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"246\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasteofchicagobuddhism.blogspot.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Taste of Chicago Buddhism<\/a> is rapidly becoming one of my favorite American <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> blogs.  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