{"id":250,"date":"2024-12-19T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:34:06","slug":"unnamed-canyon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/contradictions\/unnamed-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnamed Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sixth book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shantiarts.co\/uploads\/files\/ghi\/GLASER_CANYON.html\">Unnamed Canyon<\/a>. The book&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n<p><em>Unnamed Canyon<\/em> is a book in two parts: first, a meditation on teaching and teachers; and second, a consequent exploration of the major themes of my formative years in higher education in the nineties.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the book is the prospect, and then experience, of sending my oldest child off to college at Berkeley, my alma mater. The two-part structure, about teaching and about my own experience at university, reflects this. At a perhaps somewhat deeper level, connected to these themes, the book is a Daoist argument against the Buddhist teaching of non-attachment, a celebration of spontaneity and love for each person&#8217;s unique expression of the human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sixth book is Unnamed Canyon. The book&#8217;s description: Unnamed Canyon is a book in two parts: first, a meditation on teaching and teachers; and second, a consequent exploration of the major themes of my formative years in higher education in the nineties. At the heart of the book is the prospect, and then experience, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}