{"id":101,"date":"2015-05-16T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/?p=101"},"modified":"2015-05-16T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:45:26","slug":"find-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/2015\/05\/16\/find-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/IMG_7877.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_7877\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/IMG_7877_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7877\" width=\"378\" height=\"253\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\"><em>\u201cLearn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">&#8211; Pythagoras (580 B.C. \u2013 500 B.C.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">May is often an incredibly busy time.\u00a0 School is getting ready to end for the year, there are many events going on, and we are trying to get caught up on spring clean-up tasks.\u00a0 Are you feeling like you are on overload?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">It is estimated that a person has over 60,000 separate thoughts per day\u2026every day.\u00a0 Is it any wonder we are exhausted?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">Yet we fill silent gaps in conversations and are bored when we sit alone.\u00a0 We need\u00a0 time to just listen and be silent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">Take time this week to find silence and enjoy it.\u00a0 Give your mind a short vacation and just \u201cbe.\u201d\u00a0 Feel the cool air of spring.\u00a0 Smell all of the fresh smells.\u00a0 See the beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\"><em>\u201cAll man\u2019s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;\">-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cLearn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.\u201d &#8211; Pythagoras (580 B.C. \u2013 500 B.C.) May is often an incredibly busy time.\u00a0 School is getting ready to end for the year, there are many events going on, and we are trying to get caught up on spring clean-up tasks.\u00a0 Are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}