{"id":514,"date":"2018-01-16T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:04:06","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"WAITING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1061-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-516\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1061-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1061 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1061-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1061-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henry and Rudy waiting by the door, watching the geese in the field.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t\u00a0 know about you, but I&#8217;m terrible at waiting. I don&#8217;t like to do it, whether stuck behind a car that has suddenly stopped for no reason, or in line at a restaurant. It makes me twitchy. But I recently heard a sermon about emptiness&#8211;really about how we have to tolerate &#8220;no&#8221; before we can get to a &#8220;yes&#8221;, and that helped me look at waiting a little differently. (And by the way, Henry and Rudy are really good at this.)<\/p>\n<p>Emptiness is scary. It can make us feel alone, useless, uncertain. But the sermon I heard helped me see it&#8217;s also a creative time&#8211;a time of possibilities. It&#8217;s time when we can reflect, pause, breathe, and let go. It forces us to be present, and like meditation, gives us the gift of the here and now.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my goal for the New Year. To wait, consider, take my time, see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry and Rudy waiting by the door, watching the geese in the field. I don&#8217;t\u00a0 know about you, but I&#8217;m terrible at waiting. I don&#8217;t like&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-burnout","category-jean","category-job-search"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2j73q-waiting","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}