{"id":23,"date":"2006-04-20T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T13:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-04-20T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T13:06:59","slug":"the-coyote-buddha-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The Coyote &#038; Buddha Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Coyote &amp; Buddha Variations<\/strong><strong><br \/>           <\/strong>by<br \/>           Canis Latrans<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The story: <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In one of his previous incarnations, Buddha was walking            along the edge of a cliff and heard cries coming from below. Upon looking            over the edge, he saw starving tiger cubs with a mother tiger too weak            to feed them. The Buddha-in-progress leaped immediately to his death            to provide nourishment for the cubs.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Variation one: <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One time, Coyote and Buddha were walking along the edge            of a cliff and heard cries coming from below. Upon looking over the            edge, they saw starving tiger cubs with a mother tiger too weak to feed            them. Without a single moment of hesitation, Coyote pushed the Buddha            off the cliff to his death, thus providing nourishment for the cubs.          <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Variation two: <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One time, Coyote and Buddha were walking along the edge            of a cliff and heard cries coming from below. Upon looking over the            edge, they saw starving tiger cubs with a mother tiger too weak to feed            them. Without a single moment of hesitation, Coyote pushed the Buddha            off the cliff. The Buddha fell on the tigress, killing them both. Coyote            scaled the cliff and skinned the tigress, as the cubs devoured the Buddha.          <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Variation three: <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">One time, Coyote and Buddha were walking along the edge            of a cliff and heard cries coming from below. Upon looking over the            edge, they saw starving tiger cubs with a mother tiger too weak to feed            them. Without a single moment of hesitation, they continued their walk.          <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">No.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Coyote, being hungry, devoured the Buddha. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Then climbed down and skinned the tigress&hellip; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And the cubs. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&quot;Cute trick,&quot; said Buddha. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&quot;Thanks,&quot; replied Coyote. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&quot;&hellip;Hey! Where did you come from?!?&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coyote &amp; Buddha Variations by Canis Latrans The story: In one of his previous incarnations, Buddha was walking along the edge of a cliff and heard cries coming from below. Upon looking over the edge, he saw starving tiger cubs with a mother tiger too weak to feed them. The Buddha-in-progress leaped immediately to his death to provide nourishment &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-go-fish-go-fish","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coyotemadonna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}