{"id":788,"date":"2005-10-14T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=788"},"modified":"2005-10-14T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T19:00:49","slug":"being-a-jones-and-the-jones-of-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/being-a-jones-and-the-jones-of-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Jones and the Jones of Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, everyone was named Jones. Everyone in the world. A Jones discovered fire. A Jones taught other Joneses to swim and to read and write. All was utopic.<\/p>\n<p>But as time progressed people were not so nice. A killing happened. The  killer was no longer called Jones. he was now Caine. At each crime, at each dispicable act, a person was deJonesed and forced to take other<br \/>\nnames. <\/p>\n<p>Although there are still many Joneses there are also many who have fallen from their original Jonesian state.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps in time we will all reJones and all sentient beings will be saved.  The first vow of a Jones states: &#8220;Sentient beings are numberless; I vow to free them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, everyone was named Jones. Everyone in the world. A Jones discovered fire. A Jones taught other Joneses to swim and to read and write. All was utopic. But as time progressed people were not so nice. A killing happened. The killer was no longer called Jones. he was now Caine. At each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}