{"id":65887,"date":"2026-02-10T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-drove-hours-to-see-the-monks-walking-for-peace-five-minutes-with-them-was-the-gift-of-a-lifetime\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:24","slug":"i-drove-hours-to-see-the-monks-walking-for-peace-five-minutes-with-them-was-the-gift-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-drove-hours-to-see-the-monks-walking-for-peace-five-minutes-with-them-was-the-gift-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"I drove hours to see the monks walking for peace. Five minutes with them was the gift of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I glimpsed the monks on their 2,300-mile pilgrimage across America \u2013 their message of loving-kindness had me in tears<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m obsessed with <a href=\"https:\/\/dhammacetiya.com\/walk-for-peace-day-invitation-monks-nuns-dc-2026\/\">the monks<\/a>,\u201d my friend Sam told me. \u201cIt\u2019s the only thing getting me through the violence of this second Trump administration. The monks, and my meds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded. I\u2019d first heard about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dhammacetiya.com\/walk-for-peace\/live-map\/\">monks walking for peace<\/a> after my brother and sister-in-law traveled to hear them in Alabama, returning with stories of stillness and a grounded sense of hope.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/10\/monks-peace-walk-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I glimpsed the monks on their 2,300-mile pilgrimage across America \u2013 their message of loving-kindness had me in tears \u201cI\u2019m obsessed with the monks,\u201d my friend Sam told me. \u201cIt\u2019s the only thing getting me through the violence of this second Trump administration. The monks, and my meds.\u201d I nodded. I\u2019d first heard about the &#8230; <a title=\"I drove hours to see the monks walking for peace. Five minutes with them was the gift of a lifetime\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/i-drove-hours-to-see-the-monks-walking-for-peace-five-minutes-with-them-was-the-gift-of-a-lifetime\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I drove hours to see the monks walking for peace. Five minutes with them was the gift of a lifetime\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}