{"id":88672,"date":"2021-06-26T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88672"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:49:38","slug":"zen-and-the-art-of-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/zen-and-the-art-of-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the Art of Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I have little experience on what<br \/>\nzen and running mean together other than<br \/>\na new age catchy phrase to sell something.<br \/>\nI meditate sporadically, am not a Buddhist,<br \/>\nand stopped jogging several years ago<br \/>\nwhen my body said enough.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have read the archery and<br \/>\nmotorcycle maintenance books during a time<br \/>\nof discomfort as if there is ever a time of comfort.<br \/>\nRarely during a jog, the quieting of my mind<br \/>\nwould allow me to disappear into the serious<br \/>\nbusiness of just existing.<\/p>\n<p>I confess the best time of the run was<br \/>\nthat moment of stopping as my<br \/>\nbreathing finally begins to gain ground<br \/>\non where I am and I am able to feel<br \/>\na sense of satisfaction at completing<br \/>\na necessary but arduous task of subsistence.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you have it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I have little experience on what zen and running mean together other than a new age catchy phrase to sell something. I meditate sporadically, am not a Buddhist, and stopped jogging several years ago when my body said enough. Of course, I have read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89953,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88672\/revisions\/89953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}