{"id":317,"date":"2009-06-18T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-06-18T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:41:13","slug":"the-rut-of-the-insular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/the-rut-of-the-insular\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rut of the Insular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-320\" title=\"aloneincrowd\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/aloneincrowd.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"aloneincrowd\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/aloneincrowd.jpg 773w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/aloneincrowd-350x280.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/aloneincrowd-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/aloneincrowd-600x480.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the rain is coming sideways\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the fog is inching near<\/p>\n<p>Many times the universal feeling is alone-ness<\/p>\n<p>But if it is universal, how can it still be true, completely?<\/p>\n<p>It is a paradoxical, yes?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Somehow we can be crowded and still alienated, apart.<\/p>\n<p>Never touching another in the way that is the least bit beneficial (in those times).<\/p>\n<p>The gap to someone else feels like miles, becuase real interiors are too protected\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortified.\u00a0Insular.<\/p>\n<p>Like a walled city that starves itself into extinction, we can get into a rut like this.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it like for you?<\/p>\n<p>[polldaddy poll=&#8221;1750624&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on alienation, and the paradox of being alone while near others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[182,187,1185,2070,2713,74],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-alienation","tag-aloneness","tag-experiencing-god","tag-loneliness","tag-protection","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}