{"id":2869,"date":"2008-04-03T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/slow-down\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:55:37","slug":"slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The luxury of rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/m-c\/2384530469\/\" title=\"Slow Down by m-c, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3228\/2384530469_67a4193d5a_o.gif\" width=\"460\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Slow Down\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Slow Down is a must, and if i omit, my body does remember me. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be slow blogging for the next days, as i must rest from yet another sinus cold. I know i could buy cheap-but-strong medicine, this way i could continue to run and run, ignoring my body&#8217;s urge to rest, my soul&#8217;s need for calm, but i&#8217;d rather choose to just stop and rest. I know this is luxury, since resting and relaxing are really expensive medicine these days, one that just a few can afford. <\/p>\n<p>To learn to relax &#8211; through meditation, yoga, sports, traveling &#8211; will be a much needed activity in the coming years, as stress is becoming the number 1 disease in our culture. On this, i wish you all to be able to Slow Down a little, &#8217;till i get back on my feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Slow Down is a must, and if i omit, my body does remember me. I&#8217;ll be slow blogging for the next days, as i must rest from yet another sinus cold. I know i could buy cheap-but-strong medicine, this way i could continue to run and run, ignoring my body&#8217;s urge to rest, my&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/slow-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The luxury of rest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}