{"id":390,"date":"2007-05-30T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/1180540487683.html"},"modified":"2007-05-30T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:54:47","slug":"blogentry-video-buddhist-mandala-destroyed-by-small-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Video : Buddhist Mandala Destroyed by Small Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> Hooray, I&#039;m famous &#8211; <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/30\/little_boy_ruins_san.html&#034;>BoingBoing.net used my link<\/a> :).  Well, acknowledged that I pointed out the video link.  Close enough :).<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about this in passing I didn&#039;t think much of it.  I didn&#039;t realize that <a href=&#034;http:\/\/video.ap.org\/v\/Default.aspx?g=2a6d697e-c6c4-4980-821b-bbb5a8086f92&#038;f=coden&#038;partner=en-ap&#034;>there is video<\/a>.  This is the incident you may have heard of where a small boy climbed under the ropes in a Kansas train station and danced all over a Buddhist sand mandala that they had been working on for days.  The video shows the entire event, and I have to admit that I did look at the progress bar to see when it would mercifully be over.<\/p>\n<p\/>Perhaps the most annoying part is not the child &#8211; I mean, come on, he&#039;s maybe 2 years old? &#8212; it&#039;s the mother.  Not only does she leave the child completely out of her site for close to 2 minutes (in a train station?!), but when she finally comes to collect him, she never even stops to look at the damage he&#039;s caused, and makes no effort to make amends or even to acknowledge fault.  She just walks away.  Not sure whether to call her a bad mother or just a bad person in general.<\/p>\n<p\/>Wherever you are, lady, I hope you get reincarnated as a centipede.  And I stole that joke from NPR&#039;s Wait Wait, Don&#039;t Tell Me.<\/p>\n<p\/>The best part of the story, of course, is the quote from the monks who simply said, &#034;No problem&#034; and started over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Hooray, I&#039;m famous &#8211; BoingBoing.net used my link :). Well, acknowledged that I pointed out the video link. Close enough :). When I first heard about this in passing I didn&#039;t think much of it. I didn&#039;t realize that there is video. This is the incident you may have heard of where a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}