{"id":1178,"date":"2023-10-21T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/young-mans-bible-old-mans-bible\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:36:25","slug":"young-mans-bible-old-mans-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/young-mans-bible-old-mans-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Man&#8217;s Bible, Old Man&#8217;s Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ca51c200c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hitchhiker\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ca51c200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ca51c200c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Hitchhiker\" \/><\/a>When he was a young man he travelled around the country with&#0160;<em>On the Road<\/em>, the &#39;Bible of the Beat Generation,&#39; in his rucksack, just as Kerouac had with Dwight Goddard&#39;s&#0160;<em>A<\/em>&#0160;<em>Buddhist Bible<\/em>&#0160;in his. Now the young man is old. Now when he travels he carries a different light paperback, the plain old Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And he says a prayer for the soul of a lonesome traveller who quit the&#0160;<em>via dolorosa<\/em> on this date 54 years ago thereby securing his release from the samsaric meat wheel and the granting of his wish:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The wheel of the quivering meat conception . . . . . . I wish I was free of that slaving meat wheel and safe in heaven dead. (<em>Mexico City Blues<\/em>, 1959, 211th Chorus).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was a young man he travelled around the country with&#0160;On the Road, the &#39;Bible of the Beat Generation,&#39; in his rucksack, just as Kerouac had with Dwight Goddard&#39;s&#0160;A&#0160;Buddhist Bible&#0160;in his. Now the young man is old. Now when he travels he carries a different light paperback, the plain old Bible. &#0160; And he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/young-mans-bible-old-mans-bible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young Man&#8217;s Bible, Old Man&#8217;s Bible&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}