{"id":5667,"date":"2017-04-20T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2017-04-20T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:59:03","slug":"sit-in-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5667","title":{"rendered":"Sit in the silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sat on the park bench. The wind blew through our hair. For the purposes of the conversation, I tilted eastward so that I could see my companion clearly. As a result though, the wind flung strands of hair in my face. I felt itchy, but I knew that it wasn&#8217;t an hour yet and didn&#8217;t feel like the value was squeezed enough.  So I continued following the conversation, letting it go wherever it will.<\/p>\n<p>I had the lines of gratitude and <i>see you again<\/i> ready.<\/p>\n<p>And then sometimes the conversation would stop.  She would say something.  Or I would say something.  And no need to add more.  Because perhaps the energy wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>I could have learned more, but I felt the boundaries or the boundaries were created in my mind.  I could have dug deeper, but I was hesitant to jump into that.  And yet.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in the silence.  Just letting it drape.  Because I could choose to say nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat on the park bench. The wind blew through our hair. For the purposes of the conversation, I tilted eastward so that I could see my companion clearly. As a result though, the wind flung strands of hair in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}