{"id":2110,"date":"2015-05-18T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:22:48","slug":"sounds-of-silence-simon-garfunkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/05\/18\/sounds-of-silence-simon-garfunkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of Silence &#8211; Simon &#038; Garfunkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently I&#8217;ve made a renewed commitment to mindfulness meditation, something I discovered in prison and found very useful.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve neglected it as I&#8217;ve gotten busy.\u00a0 I heard God in solitary confinement, I believe, because it was the only place where there weren&#8217;t any distractions.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m out there are lots of distractions but I need to create a quiet place in my mind so that I can quiet the noise and be here now.\u00a0 This helps me focus, helps me be aware of what&#8217;s going on within and without me, and helps me relax and rest when I need to, and helps me to hear God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964)\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zLfCnGVeL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recently I&#8217;ve made a renewed commitment to mindfulness meditation, something I discovered in prison and found very useful.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve neglected it as I&#8217;ve gotten busy.\u00a0 I heard God in solitary confinement, I believe, because it was the only place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/05\/18\/sounds-of-silence-simon-garfunkel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}