{"id":2200,"date":"2008-01-06T22:06:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2008-01-09T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T15:30:40","slug":"letting-go-and-the-magic-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Letting go and the magic ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We rode our bikes up and down the lakefront this morning in the punishing wind. And at breakfast I was admiring K&#8217;s ring and asked to try it on. She said it&#8217;s her magic ring. In Florida some years back she swam far out and while she was frolicking she lost it and she and L looked for it and couldn&#8217;t find it so she said &#8220;I let it go.&#8221; And suddenly L found the ring with her toe in the sand. So my friend calls it her magic ring. And I said there is a lot to learn from letting it go. Sometimes you concentrate and focus and dwell on something for so long that you lose perspective &#8211; but once you let it go &#8211; you are able to appreciate it for what it is, rather than for what you want it to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rode our bikes up and down the lakefront this morning in the punishing wind. And at breakfast I was admiring K&#8217;s ring and asked to try it on. She said it&#8217;s her magic ring. In Florida some years back she swam far out and while she was frolicking she lost it and she and L looked for it and couldn&#8217;t find it so she said &#8220;I let it go.&#8221; And suddenly L found the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}