{"id":2421,"date":"2012-02-16T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T22:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2012-03-05T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:03:07","slug":"empty-your-mind-be-formless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/empty-your-mind-be-formless\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty your mind, be formless."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a caricature of one of my idols, Bruce Lee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brucelee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2422\" title=\"brucelee\" src=\"http:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brucelee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brucelee.jpg 700w, https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/brucelee-178x200.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His philosophy was incredible. Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Bruce Lee<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a caricature of one of my idols, Bruce Lee. His philosophy was incredible. Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say: Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/empty-your-mind-be-formless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Empty your mind, be formless.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,27],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketch-a-day","tag-caricature","tag-faces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praveensawh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}