{"id":3237,"date":"2010-05-31T11:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/234"},"modified":"2010-05-31T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:34:43","slug":"an-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/an-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the exercises in <em>The Artist&#039;s Way<\/em> by Julia Cameron is to go for a week without reading.  <em>Impossible!<\/em>  I thought the first time I tried it.  Yet I have found value in periodically emptying my mind of other people&#039;s words. <\/p>\n<p>I listen to the frogs at night and the birds in the morning.  I check out the trees that have fallen or died since last year.  I see that new moss has grown over parts of the path, and the ladies&#039; slippers are blooming.  I count the goslings being taught the trail between the ponds by their proud parents.  Because the ponds are very high this year, the logs that make a crude bulkhead are under water, accelerating their decay.  I cannot put any weight on them.<\/p>\n<p>Some things are unchanged:  the ruddy sky reflected on the water, the rustle of pine needles in the wind, the tapping of rain on the roof.  I sweep spiderwebs from the corners and mouse droppings from behind the books.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare wrote of \u201ctongues in trees, books in the running brooks,\/Sermons in stones, and good in everything.\u201d  There are stories enough here for me.  This week, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the exercises in The Artist&#039;s Way by Julia Cameron is to go for a week without reading. Impossible! I thought the first time I tried it. Yet I have found value in periodically emptying my mind of other people&#039;s words. I listen to the frogs at night and the birds in the morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatmytoronto.com\/bmorrison\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}