{"id":2213,"date":"2008-01-09T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2008-01-09T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T16:40:31","slug":"the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"The waiting is the hardest part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I slogged out of bed this morning &#8211; just resistant to getting up and going &#8211; then I took the dogs out, then brought Arlene back &#8211; then took Loca out for a longer walk. This part of the walk began with me muttering underneath my breath &#8211; releasing anger about something that I need to just let go of &#8211; but I had a few more words to mutter before I could do that &#8211; then I said &#8220;Enough already&#8221; and looked up at the big puffy clouds and cleared my mind of all negative nonsense. Then I entered the park and looked around at the silvery moss hanging from the trees and the ducks and geese scattering around the lagoon and smiled. It&#8217;s all good I said to myself. It&#8217;s all good.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>I ran hard for a little bit with Loca off the leash until she started to run into the street. I leashed her back up. My heart was beating so loud inside my chest &#8211; it wants &#8211; and yet I have to quiet the thundering pace it wants to proceed with &#8211; proceed with love &#8211; with great love &#8211; the profoundness &#8211; the wanting &#8211; desire &#8211; and so I cradle it back in its cavity and tell it to rest &#8211; to be patient &#8211; its time will come.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slogged out of bed this morning &#8211; just resistant to getting up and going &#8211; then I took the dogs out, then brought Arlene back &#8211; then took Loca out for a longer walk. This part of the walk began with me muttering underneath my breath &#8211; releasing anger about something that I need to just let go of &#8211; but I had a few more words to mutter before I could do that&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-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-zH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}