{"id":29129,"date":"2011-11-04T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/steve_jobs_private_spirituality_now_an_open_book\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:02:32","slug":"steve_jobs_private_spirituality_now_an_open_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29129","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Steve Jobs&#39; private spirituality now an open book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He considered moving to a Zen monastery before shifting his sights to Silicon Valley, where he became a brash businessman.<\/p>\n<p>He preached about the dangers of desire but urged consumers to covet every new iPhone incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an enlightened being who was cruel,&#8221; says a former girlfriend. &#8220;That&#8217;s a strange combination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, we can add another irony to the legacy of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs: Since his death on Oct. 5, the famously private man&#8217;s spiritual side has become an open book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2011-11-02\/steve-jobs-faith-buddhism\/51049772\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He considered moving to a Zen monastery before shifting his sights to Silicon Valley, where he became a brash businessman. He preached about the dangers of desire but urged consumers to covet every new iPhone incarnation. &#8220;He was an enlightened<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29129\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,430,589,149,155,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-buddhism","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}