{"id":710,"date":"2023-12-12T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-12-12T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T16:22:52","slug":"sleep-and-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"SLEEP AND WAITING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_3134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-711\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_3134-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_3134-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_3134.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My desk is next to this bed where my two dogs love to take a morning nap in the winter sunlight. I glance over at them and can feel how warm their fur is, can feel relaxation. They&#8217;re quiet. Right up against each other.<\/p>\n<p>My favoirte Christmas Carol is &#8220;In the Bleak Mid-Winter&#8221; and I sing it as I walk the dogs in the cold air. But there is nothing bleak about these two creatures even as the days shorten. I sing in a church choir and this season is advent&#8211;a time of waiting. Waiting for the darkness not to win. Waiting for light to return. Waiting for miracles.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought of sleep as the best way to wait, but Rudy and Dixie, my two dogs, know best. They say:\u00a0 find a sunny spot, close your eyes, let go of whatever you think you have to do and just be here. See what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My desk is next to this bed where my two dogs love to take a morning nap in the winter sunlight. I glance over at them&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}