{"id":152,"date":"2009-10-04T07:51:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-10-04T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T15:51:05","slug":"piranha-submerged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Piranha submerged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155\" title=\"piranha\" src=\"http:\/\/zenjones.canyonlink.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/piranha1.jpg\" alt=\"piranha\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>I&#8217;ve been thinking about a recent talk by Ezra on refraining from expressing negative emotions vs. repressing them&#8211;a common issue for sure, but one I never felt applied to me until, like, last week, when I suddenly found myself overcome by hitherto unregistered resentment and angst. Perfect for the month ahead of intensified practice, and for my first blogging foray.<\/p>\n<p>One of my &#8220;practice intensifiers&#8221; is to write a practice-related haiku each day. Another practice thing I like is controlled (or not) exposure to discomfort. This forum is perfect for combining these two things: I can post my haiku here and at the same time create the discomfort of public exposure and fear of ridicule and judgment for writing bad poetry. Isn&#8217;t the Internet great?<\/p>\n<p>(piranha submerged<br \/>\nswims undetected) what, pray,<br \/>\nfloats on the surface?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about a recent talk by Ezra on refraining from expressing negative emotions vs. repressing them&#8211;a common issue for sure, but one I never felt applied to me until, like, last week, when I suddenly found myself overcome by hitherto unregistered resentment and angst. Perfect for the month ahead of intensified practice, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenjones.bravoecho.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}