{"id":761,"date":"2007-08-17T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/08\/17\/andante-at-a-walking-pace\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T20:47:27","slug":"andante-at-a-walking-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/761","title":{"rendered":"Andante: at a walking pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sense of marking time characterizes my days, although I know that personal progress is taking place. There is no standing still.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/06\/27\/pulling-thistles-in-the-emotional-weed-bed\/\">same old angst<\/a> surfaces when we purge records and remnants of past projects. What is the underlying nature of this difficulty in destroying the evidence of how I spent a portion of my life? It is not, as Dana misinterprets, an issue of trust. I trust her with vast areas of my well-being, and have for decades. Perhaps it has much more to do with what Maurice Manning touches on in his poem, <em>A Possible Blessing<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>. . . the man who understands diminishment<br \/>\nwill lay down in his coffin from time to time<br \/>\nand practice disappearing, like a bug<br \/>\nriding a twig on a stream: a speck of un-<br \/>\nbelonging, immersed in careless undulation.<br \/>\nYou lose your obligation to remember,<br \/>\nwhich frees you to the quickened world of matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014from <em>A Companion for Owls<\/em>, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sense of marking time characterizes my days, although I know that personal progress is taking place. There is no standing still. The same old angst surfaces when we purge records and remnants of past projects. What is the underlying nature of this difficulty in destroying the evidence of how I spent a portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,14,27,39,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"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=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}