{"id":309972,"date":"2026-01-16T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-buddhist-monks-and-their-dog-are-walking-across-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:06","slug":"why-buddhist-monks-and-their-dog-are-walking-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-buddhist-monks-and-their-dog-are-walking-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Buddhist monks and their dog are walking across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/CGx8KrYCv8s\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why Buddhist monks and their dog are walking across the US\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CGx8KrYCv8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A group of Buddhist monks is walking across the United States to raise awareness for peace, CNN\u2019s Dianne Gallagher reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Buddhist monks is walking across the United States to raise awareness for peace, CNN\u2019s Dianne Gallagher reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[148351,130308,148973],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-309972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-buddhist","tag-group","tag-monks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Buddhist monks and their dog are walking across the US | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Why Buddhist monks and their dog are walking across the US for free, here on News ISC. 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