{"id":1144,"date":"2011-03-04T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/03\/04\/contrast-of-substance\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T01:22:37","slug":"contrast-of-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1144","title":{"rendered":"Contrast of Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March Exercise —day four—<\/span> Dana and I spent the evening with two of the couples who had shown us the most compassion during our winter of sorrow. Actually, there are a surprising number of these kind people, and they\u2019ve helped make the unthinkable bearable. I\u2019ve always been a bit uncomfortable with these types of dinner events, and didn\u2019t know what to expect tonight. It turned out to be an unusual combination of in-depth personal discussion and mindless game-table recreation. We left with a few more discretionary dollars than we brought, and, more importantly, with the satisfying knowledge that our friends are sincerely interested in the process that will put our grief behind us.<\/p>\n

Today’s sight bite—<\/span> The stuttering dance of dice on a thick glass table top —c-l-i-c-k—<\/span> like a drop of water in a skillet of hot oil.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow—<\/span> A matter of decisive internal orchestration . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March Exercise —day four— Dana and I spent the evening with two of the couples who had shown us the most compassion during our winter of sorrow. Actually, there are a surprising number of these kind people, and they\u2019ve helped make the unthinkable bearable. I\u2019ve always been a bit uncomfortable with these types of dinner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,69,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}