{"id":598,"date":"2004-12-08T23:36:22","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T07:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=598"},"modified":"2006-11-15T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T22:33:15","slug":"the-value-of-admirable-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-value-of-admirable-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"The value of admirable friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to new friends met through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkana.org\/artofhosting\/\">Art of Hosting<\/a> this week:<\/p>\n<div>With regard to external factors, I don&#8217;t envision any other single factor like friendship with admirable people as doing so much for a monk in training, who has not attained the heart&#8217;s goal but remains intent on the unsurpassed safety from bondage. A monk who is a friend with admirable people abandons what is unskillful and develops what is skillful.<\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/canon\/sutta\/khuddaka\/iti\/iti1.html#17\">Itivuttaka collection of Pali suttas.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to new friends met through the Art of Hosting this week: With regard to external factors, I don&#8217;t envision any other single factor like friendship with admirable people as doing so much for a monk in training, who has not attained the heart&#8217;s goal but remains intent on the unsurpassed safety from bondage. A monk who is a friend with admirable people abandons what is unskillful and develops what is skillful. From the Itivuttaka collection of Pali suttas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-hosting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-9E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}