{"id":619,"date":"2005-03-31T14:28:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/03\/31\/seeing-danny\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T16:49:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T20:49:48","slug":"seeing-danny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/619","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Danny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March goes out<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/uj\/2005\/03\/01\">like a lamb<\/a> (he pronounces too smugly).\n<\/p>\n<p>What a glorious day to walk to campus and swim my first laps since making the decision to switch from the Wellness Center pool. I saw a friend on the way, so we chatted, although I should correct myself and point out that a conversation with Danny can hardly be called a &#8220;chat.&#8221; In 10 to 15 minutes we touched on Bruce&#8217;s ordeal, prayer, grace, the soul, despair, suicide, Socrates, Hunter S. Thompson, Hemingway, St John of the Cross, the death of Terri Schiavo, eternity, Thomas &agrave; Kempis, and the origins of monastic life. There&#8217;s never been time for &#8220;small talk&#8221; when Danny and I see each other, which isn&#8217;t often enough. When I got to Centre the water temperature and chlorine level were just right. The sun was pouring through the skylights. Even the shower-head couldn&#8217;t have been in more satisfactory adjustment. When I tested the speed of my freestyle stroke, I matched my personal-best, single-lap sprint time. Perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March goes out like a lamb (he pronounces too smugly). What a glorious day to walk to campus and swim my first laps since making the decision to switch from the Wellness Center pool. I saw a friend on the way, so we chatted, although I should correct myself and point out that a conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,21,8,16,25,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}