{"id":2174,"date":"2015-12-20T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2015-12-21T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:34:09","slug":"the-beach-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"The Beach, the Waves&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this, and it was poetic enough that I asked her permission to post it, and she said yes:   <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160; \u201cIn my life, I am standing in the ocean and facing the beach.&#160; I love the beach; the rhythmicity of the waves relaxes me.&#160; I love the warmth of the sun, the smell of the salt water, and the feel of the cool breezes on my face.&#160; When the ocean is calm, I have hope that things are good and I can feel at peace.&#160; Every now and then, a huge wave comes and knocks me down.&#160; Sometimes I can get up quickly, but sometimes it is so big and strong that it drags me under and I have difficulty figuring which way is up.&#160; Sometimes, I am hardly standing when another big one hits me from behind again.&#160; If they keep coming quickly, I feel I cannot catch my breath and the struggle to keep getting up is harder and harder\u2014especially when I suspect that more waves are coming.&#160; But sometimes, when I am under the water, I turn and can look up through the water and see the sun shining, so I push to stand again.&#160; Sometimes, there is a hand extended to help me up, but sometimes someone pushes me under.&#160; I\u2019m not sure how many times I can do this, but for now, I do.\u201d    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend sent this, and it was poetic enough that I asked her permission to post it, and she said yes: &#160;&#160;&#160; \u201cIn my life, I am standing in the ocean and facing the beach.&#160; I love the beach; the rhythmicity of the waves relaxes me.&#160; I love the warmth of the sun, the smell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}