{"id":115,"date":"2013-07-09T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:04:04","slug":"water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/water\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rinsed the pot. Used my hand to reach in and scrub off the coffee grinds and oils. The water ran cool over my hand and then I <em>felt<\/em> the water. It swirled around my fingers. It rushed out of the faucet. I focused on the sensation of my hand feeling water. The sensation was so amazing that I wanted to touch this water, move this water, feel this water for a very long time. I then realized I wanted to touch other dishes and move the water in them. For a moment, I remembered what a thrill learning about touch was and is for children, without an agenda or a place to go or something to get done, they will leave the water running and feel how water feels on their skin, against a pan, running down their arms, splashing all over the counters.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do that. I make coffee instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rinsed the pot. Used my hand to reach in and scrub off the coffee grinds and oils. The water ran cool over my hand and then I felt the water. It swirled around my fingers. It rushed out of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/water\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}