{"id":3679,"date":"2004-12-06T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/12\/06\/buddhist-bloom\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T23:09:02","slug":"buddhist-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/12\/06\/3679-buddhist-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontOB.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> The &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; star took part in a religious ceremony on Saturday at the Soka Gakkai International Buddhist centre in Britain to mark his commitment to the faith. The heartthrob star &#8211; who played Legolas in the Oscar-winning movie trilogy &#8211; was joined by 60 other devotees for the hour-long service where he was presented with his Gohonzon &#8211; a Sanskrit prayer scroll &#8211; by religious leader Ricky Baynes, which symbolised his entry into the movement. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.teenhollywood.com\/d.asp?r=86049&#038;cat=1055\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; star took part in a religious ceremony on Saturday at the Soka Gakkai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-Xl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}