{"id":214,"date":"2012-12-08T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-02-08T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T22:30:37","slug":"the-discipline-of-do-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/the-discipline-of-do-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discipline of Do Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Good Will Hunting, before Drugstore Cowboy, even before Mala Noche, Gus Van Sant made a series of short, humorous films.  One was &#8220;The Discipline of DE,&#8221; based on a William S. Burroughs story in his collection &#8220;Exterminator!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The Discipline of Do Easy is a philosophy of life propounded by Burroughs.  Is it a parody of Eastern religion? Mockery of self-help books? An actual, surprisingly deep discipline based on Daoism?  Funny? <\/p>\n<p>Yes.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Good Will Hunting, before Drugstore Cowboy, even before Mala Noche, Gus Van Sant made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[118,56,120,121,114,23,117,116,51,52,115,119,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realchange.org\/taoish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}