{"id":673,"date":"2005-06-08T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=673"},"modified":"2005-06-08T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T21:05:02","slug":"sitting-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/08\/sitting-still\/","title":{"rendered":"sitting still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, it seems, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of sitting.<\/p>\n<p>In beach chairs anchored in the sand by a blazing bonfire. On a dark and windy two-lane road because there&#8217;s an accident up ahead and no other way to get home. In the backyard of a house in the middle of nowhere, playing made-up guessing games about celebrities. Under the shade of a cherry tree as we wait for a ride back home.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I&#8217;m at the final destination or on my way somewhere else, I&#8217;m learning to enjoy the act of sitting still. I&#8217;m learning to enjoy the moment. I&#8217;ve spent so much of my time rushing from one place to another that the act of dawdling is a refreshing change.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it helps that I&#8217;ve had good company. But I know that even if I were all by myself in the middle of nowhere with nothing but my thoughts, I&#8217;d be able to sit still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, it seems, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of sitting. In beach chairs anchored in the sand by a blazing bonfire. On a dark and windy two-lane road because there&#8217;s an accident up ahead and no other way to get home. In the backyard of a house in the middle of nowhere, playing made-up guessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}