{"id":40813,"date":"2013-04-02T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=40813"},"modified":"2015-06-01T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T02:07:05","slug":"entertaining-ideas-of-cooperative-communal-living-in-a-monastic-setting-as-our-elders-head-into-the-golden-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/entertaining-ideas-of-cooperative-communal-living-in-a-monastic-setting-as-our-elders-head-into-the-golden-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining ideas of cooperative communal living in a monastic setting as our elders head into the golden years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I connected with a fellow devotee and we were discussing initial ideas of cooperative communal living in a monastic setting as our elders head into the golden years, i.e separate housing on communal land. There are several communities not in the spotlight that endeavor to have a working model. The shared values of functional silence, meditation and spiritual practice, even if in different traditions, would be the connecting factor, as well as a monastic, if not necessarily ascetic, lifestyle. 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There are several communities not in the spotlight that endeavor to have a working model. The shared values of [&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-40813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40814,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40813\/revisions\/40814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}