{"id":8247,"date":"2009-05-21T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2009-05-22T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T01:37:45","slug":"another-zen-and-the-art-of-surfing-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"Another Zen And The Art Of Surfing Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20090520<\/a>Jaimal Yogis<\/strong>, the 29-year-old author of Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea<\/a><\/em><\/strong> had planned to write his book on his girlfriend’s father’s 30-foot sailboat docked in Sausalito, California, but he ran into a little sewage problem according to a story in the Marin Independent Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I thought that would be romantic and somehow Zen-like. But after a few months, the holding tank, no matter how many times I emptied it, reeked of sewage. And the little bed, the one tucked into the bow, the one I compared to ‘being in the womb,’ was right next to the holding tank; so, obviously, it no longer lulled me to sleep. It just smelled. I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hopefully, that is not the case with his book, something that Surf Nation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/em>author Alex Wade<\/strong> says has “cult classic stamped all over it.” We haven’t read Saltwater Buddha yet, but are looking forward to Yogis summer book tour. For all the dates click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[Link: Marin Independent Journal<\/a><\/strong>]
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Jaimal Yogis, the 29-year-old author of Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer’s Quest to Find Zen on the Sea had planned to write his book on his girlfriend’s father’s 30-foot sailboat docked in Sausalito, California, but he ran into a little sewage problem according to a story in the Marin Independent Journal. I thought that would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}