{"id":1568,"date":"2006-11-03T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/03\/meditation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T00:33:00","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started to meditate. If I feel that my mind&#8217;s just buzzing with random thoughts (and I don&#8217;t have much else to do), I&#8217;ll just lie down wherever I am and stare at something, listen to something, or concentrate on something until I&#8217;m feeling calmer. It&#8217;s a little hard to do it for a long time &#8211; stuff starts to ache or itch or distract me, but that&#8217;ll get better with more meditation.<br \/>\nBTW, forgive me if this sounds lame to anyone. I&#8217;m only saying that because that&#8217;s what I used to constantly think of other people on my friends list who were also doing similar things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started to meditate. If I feel that my mind&#8217;s just buzzing with random thoughts (and I don&#8217;t have much else to do), I&#8217;ll just lie down wherever I am and stare at something, listen to something, or concentrate on something until I&#8217;m feeling calmer. It&#8217;s a little hard to do it for a long&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/meditation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meditation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}