{"id":526,"date":"2022-05-13T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T08:54:29","slug":"january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The passage of time <br \/> is a smooth loop <br \/> of circles around the sun &#8211; <br \/> a \u2018year\u2019 has no natural edge <br \/> so can\u2019t be \u2018new\u2019 or \u2018old\u2019 <br \/> in any truthful sense &#8211; <br \/> these numbers we add up <br \/> are merely markers <br \/> of how long we\u2019ve been counting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as winter catches our breath <br \/> it seems good to return to old rituals <br \/> so I pause and observe: <br \/> what is shifting inside <br \/> as we spin on this orbit? <br \/> what marks have been left <br \/> by recent joy and sorrow? <br \/> where will my heart lead me <br \/> if I let it? <br \/> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Watkins (2019) <em>Alive or Else.<\/em> Simply This Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of time is a smooth loop of circles around the sun &#8211; a \u2018year\u2019 has no natural edge so can\u2019t be \u2018new\u2019 or \u2018old\u2019 in any truthful sense &#8211; these numbers we add up are merely markers of how long we\u2019ve been counting. But as winter catches our breath it seems good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}