{"id":2089,"date":"2013-06-06T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:38","slug":"still-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2013\/06\/still-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Still smiling &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, <a title=\"Dalai Lama in Portland, OR 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dalailamaportland2013.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>visited Portland&#8217;s Memorial Coliseum<\/strong><\/a> last month at the invitation of <a title=\"Maitripa College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maitripa.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maitripa College<\/strong><\/a>. So amazing &#8230; either he has the ability to single-handedly raise the spirits of 11,000 strangers, or we project that ability on to him so strongly that when he appears, our spirits rise effortlessly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/2013\/06\/Dalai_Lama_small_2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2090\" alt=\"Dalai_Lama_small_2013\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/2013\/06\/Dalai_Lama_small_2013-300x55.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/2013\/06\/Dalai_Lama_small_2013-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/2013\/06\/Dalai_Lama_small_2013-940x174.png 940w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/2013\/06\/Dalai_Lama_small_2013.png 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I failed to pick up a white scarf (red arrow, <strong>click on photo to enlarge<\/strong>). Still, white scarf or not, my wife and I felt the blessings of his generosity, compassion, and good humor just the same. (The full photo of the audience, courtesy of the Oregonian, can be seen <a title=\"Oregonian\" href=\"http:\/\/photos.oregonlive.com\/photo-essay\/2013\/05\/the_dalai_lama_visits_portland.html#photo-12726945\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Maitripa College has posted videos of all five appearances of HHDL online <a title=\"Dalai Lama in Portland, OR 2013 videos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/gyalwarinpoche\/search?query=portland\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, visited Portland&#8217;s Memorial Coliseum last month at the invitation of Maitripa College. So amazing &#8230; either he has the ability to single-handedly raise the spirits of 11,000 strangers, or we project that ability on&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2013\/06\/still-smiling\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Still smiling &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}