{"id":661,"date":"2005-02-23T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T19:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=661"},"modified":"2005-02-23T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T19:53:52","slug":"on-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/on-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"On joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kelowna, BC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joy in the present moment from <a href=\"http:\/\/vernacularbody.typepad.com\/vernacularbody\/\">the vernacular body<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Joy is not &#8216;perfect circumstances.&#8217;  If it were, joy would never come.<\/p>\n<p>This is joy: going to the woods, seeing flags play in the wind, contemplating the snow and the setting sun.<\/p>\n<p>This is joy: rising to the top of a hillock in an abandoned landscape, and being surprised by the sight of a red-haired jogger lying on her back making a snow angel.<\/p>\n<p>This: laughter splashing about in the dark.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/cassandrapages.blogspot.com\/\">the cassandra pages<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelowna, BC Joy in the present moment from the vernacular body: &#8220;Joy is not &#8216;perfect circumstances.&#8217; If it were, joy would never come. This is joy: going to the woods, seeing flags play in the wind, contemplating the snow and the setting sun. This is joy: rising to the top of a hillock in an abandoned landscape, and being surprised by the sight of a red-haired jogger lying on her back making a snow angel. This: laughter splashing about in the dark.&#8221; Thanks to the cassandra pages for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-aF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}