{"id":960,"date":"2016-09-27T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=960"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T02:10:23","slug":"the-buddha-of-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2016\/09\/27\/the-buddha-of-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buddha of Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the corner from my house in Oakland is a shrine built around a Buddha statue. A couple of months ago I discovered an<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandnorth.net\/2014\/10\/21\/buddha-of-oakland\/\" target=\"_blank\"> article about the &#8220;Buddha of Oakland,&#8221; which also includes a video<\/a>. \u00a0Last week I was informed about a <a href=\"http:\/\/thisiscriminal.com\/episode-15-hes-neutral\/\" target=\"_blank\">podcast about the Buddha of Oakland<\/a>. The podcast is an interview with the person who originally placed the Buddha on the corner to deter illegal dumping. The article\/video provides additional information about the family who built and maintain the shrine.\u00a0There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjsu.edu\/urbanplanning\/facstaff\/GordonDouglas\/\" target=\"_blank\">new faculty member in the SJSU Department of Urban and Regional Planning who studies\u00a0&#8220;do-it-yourself urban design&#8221; community interventions<\/a>; I&#8217;ll have to tell him about this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the corner from my house in Oakland is a shrine built around a Buddha statue. A couple of months ago I discovered an article about the &#8220;Buddha of Oakland,&#8221; which also includes a video. \u00a0Last week I was informed about a podcast about the Buddha of Oakland. The podcast is an interview with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29098],"tags":[42859,29103],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sjsu-social-sciences","tag-diy-urban-design","tag-social-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}