{"id":5044,"date":"2012-07-17T19:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2012-07-17T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T01:27:47","slug":"cosmic-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/cosmic-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cosmosbedroom.jpg\" alt=\"cosmosbedroom\" title=\"cosmosbedroom\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cosmosbedroom.jpg 470w, https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cosmosbedroom-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWhen we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash &#8211; at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the &#8220;newness,&#8221; the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.\u201d<\/i> -Thomas Merton<\/p>\n<p>Seeking that glimpse, as always, above my old bedroom window on a moonlit night during the 2009 Perseid Meteor Shower, Atchison, KS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, [&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-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralpearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}