{"id":10658,"date":"2011-01-05T09:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10658"},"modified":"2011-01-05T09:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T14:34:05","slug":"the-deadening-of-the-heartmindsoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10658","title":{"rendered":"The deadening of the heart\/mind\/soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking with a friend yesterday who said that the loss of a good friend had a numbing affect on the heart. I told her I keep reading how loss, pain, suffering helps us grow, but I&#8217;m on the fence whether to subscribe to cyncism or faith on this subject. I have often quoted Jane Hirshfield&#8217;s Proud Flesh &#8211; the horse&#8217;s scar that can&#8217;t be wounded again. <\/p>\n<p>We are all marching forward building up our scars &#8211; if we have lived fully then many scars &#8211; and while we grow wiser, tougher, we also become number, anesthetized against future pain or anxious about the possibility of losing again (read: fearful, rigid). <\/p>\n<p>If we have had success in the past, in love, in work, in our talents &#8211; we hunger for more of the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking with a friend yesterday who said that the loss of a good friend had a numbing affect on the heart. I told her I keep reading how loss, pain, suffering helps us grow, but I&#8217;m on the fence whether to subscribe to cyncism or faith on this subject. I have often quoted Jane Hirshfield&#8217;s Proud Flesh &#8211; the horse&#8217;s scar that can&#8217;t be wounded again. We are all marching forward building up&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-10658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2LU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}