{"id":788,"date":"2015-03-04T13:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2015-10-05T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:54:01","slug":"meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/2015\/03\/04\/meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>to practice meditation<br \/>\nis to engage with a paradox<\/p>\n<p>for at its heart to meditate<br \/>\nis to do nothing<\/p>\n<p>this nothing-doing<br \/>\nis very difficult<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>meditation is sustained<br \/>\nby an absence of effort<\/p>\n<p>such sustained effortlessness<br \/>\nis exhausting<\/p>\n<p>a thousand teachings<br \/>\nvacillate on this conundrum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to practice meditation is to engage with a paradox for at its heart to meditate is to do nothing this nothing-doing is very difficult * meditation is sustained by an absence of effort such sustained effortlessness is exhausting a thousand teachings vacillate on this conundrum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}