{"id":709,"date":"2004-11-15T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=709"},"modified":"2004-11-15T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T20:45:15","slug":"staring-peacefully-and-wordlessly-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"staring peacefully and wordlessly into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;he determined that the bright and happy children had only one thing in<br \/>\ncommon: All of them spent noticeable amounts of time staring peacefully<br \/>\nand wordlessly into space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really hope <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worthwhilemag.com\/entry\/2004\/11\/15\/thought_for_the_day_monday.php\">this<\/a><br \/>\nworks for adults too.  Sometimes I think my job description<br \/>\nincludes &#8216;staring peacefully and wordlessly into space&#8217; I have been<br \/>\npracticing for years \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Actually some of my most relaxing moments come out on the front patio,<br \/>\nsitting quietly and still so that all the neighboring wildlife comes by<br \/>\nfor a visit.  As part of that I stare into the upper reaches of<br \/>\nthe oaks out front trying to locate the small birds that like to light<br \/>\nup there.  Am I brilliant, I sense that at those times, I<br \/>\nsometimes feel happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;he determined that the bright and happy children had only one thing in common: All of them spent noticeable amounts of time staring peacefully and wordlessly into space.&#8221; I really hope this works for adults too. Sometimes I think my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}