{"id":123,"date":"2013-09-12T00:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T00:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-09-12T00:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T00:30:56","slug":"the-dress-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Dress Rehearsal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love working at Mary&#8217;s Club in downtown Portland.\u00a0 It is such a gem of a dingy dive, with strong drinks and sexy women.\u00a0 Yesterday I did my regular Tuesday mid afternoon shift with Viva Las Vegas.\u00a0 We all got serenaded by 2\/3 of <em>Bergerette <\/em>Viva&#8217;s band of saucy shepardesses who sing trios of Medieval French love.\u00a0 It was another transcendent moment.\u00a0 (They happen a lot around Mary&#8217;s)\u00a0 Then after work I had the fun of calling into my friend Michael Uhila&#8217;s tv show he was filming last night called &#8220;The Dress Rehearsal.&#8221;\u00a0 Mike and I are both meditation practitioners, and we recently got into an awesome conversation about the tangible benefits we feel in our lives as a result of the sometimes boring work of taming the mind.\u00a0 Though for me, the path is a spiritual one with a continually renewed aspiration to benefit all beings, the path is also and necessarily an earthy one, with material realities.\u00a0 There are practical benefits for me in having a strong practice.\u00a0 I share these with Mike (who is a total goof and sweetheart) on the show in a call-in interview.<\/p>\n<p>Located at 6:05-10:05<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=cF1qI4Tf8jI&amp;desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcF1qI4Tf8jI\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=<wbr \/>cF1qI4Tf8jI&amp;desktop_uri=%<wbr \/>2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcF1qI4Tf8jI<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love working at Mary&#8217;s Club in downtown Portland.\u00a0 It is such a gem of a dingy dive, with strong drinks and sexy women.\u00a0 Yesterday I did my regular Tuesday mid afternoon shift with Viva Las Vegas.\u00a0 We all got serenaded by 2\/3 of Bergerette Viva&#8217;s band of saucy shepardesses who sing trios of Medieval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sterlingslyce.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}