{"id":4595,"date":"2012-04-20T05:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2012-04-20T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:25:26","slug":"instructions-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/instructions-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions (a poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/snail.jpg\" alt=\"snail\" title=\"snail\" width=\"470\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/snail.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/snail-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I read the following poem  this morning on Jorma Kaukonen&#8217;s blog <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jormakaukonen.com\/cracksinthefinish\/\">Cracks In The Finish<\/a><\/b> and thought I&#8217;d like to share it here.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions<\/p>\n<p>Give up the world; give up self; finally, give up God.<br \/>\nFind god in rhododendrons and rocks,<br \/>\npassers-by, your cat.<br \/>\nPare your beliefs, your absolutes.<br \/>\nMake it simple; make it clean.<br \/>\nNo carry-on luggage allowed.<br \/>\nExamine all you have<br \/>\nwith a loving and critical eye, then<br \/>\nthrow away some more.<br \/>\nRepeat. Repeat.<br \/>\nKeep this and only this:<br \/>\nwhat your heart beats loudly for<br \/>\nwhat feels heavy and full in your gut.<br \/>\nThere will only be one or two<br \/>\nthings you will keep,<br \/>\nand they will fit lightly<br \/>\nin your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>-Sheri Hostetler, from <i>A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the following poem this morning on Jorma Kaukonen&#8217;s blog Cracks In The Finish and thought I&#8217;d like to share it here. Instructions Give up the world; give up self; finally, give up God. Find god in rhododendrons and rocks, passers-by, your cat. Pare your beliefs, your absolutes. Make it simple; make it clean. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}