{"id":1127,"date":"2010-07-20T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:18:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:18:05","slug":"meditation-point-131-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-131-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Point #131 &#8211; Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<em>The tears I feel today<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll wait to shed tomorrow.<br \/>\nThough I&#8217;ll not sleep this night<br \/>\nNor find surcease from sorrow.<br \/>\nMy eyes must keep their sight:<br \/>\nI dare not be tear-blinded.<br \/>\nI must be free to talk<br \/>\nNot choked with grief, clear-minded.<br \/>\nMy mouth cannot betray<br \/>\nThe anguish that I know.<br \/>\nYes, I&#8217;ll keep my tears til later:<br \/>\nBut my grief will never go.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Anne McCaffrey (Dragonsinger)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Grief is something we all must deal with eventually.\u00a0 When I read any type of book I often find passages that provoke deeper thought, this is one example.\u00a0 Often in times of grief we must stay strong and deny ourselves the act of grieving until another day.\u00a0 But denied or not we still feel the grief.\u00a0 It is funny how extreme emotions can change us and stay with us forever, like love or grief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The tears I feel today I&#8217;ll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I&#8217;ll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I&#8217;ll keep<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/meditation-point-131-grief\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20,173],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-a-zen-thing","tag-meditation","tag-it-is-a-zen-thing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}