{"id":258,"date":"2002-06-30T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2002-06-30T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=258"},"modified":"2002-06-30T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2002-06-30T21:50:12","slug":"pendulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/snippets\/pendulum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pendulum Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA year ago, when I was on vacation in England, I decided that I had spent too much of my life looking back at the past and worrying about the future. I&#8217;ve always had problems simply being in the present moment and I vowed, &#8220;No more regrets and no more longing.&#8221; So I turned my back on the intensity that had defined my life for so long.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nI have achieved a stillness in my life.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nIf a pendulum stops swinging, is it still a pendulum? Is life about doing or being?\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"cont\">\nHow can I be fulfilled if I don&#8217;t know what will fill me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without longing. Without desire. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/snippets\/pendulum\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}