{"id":1318,"date":"2021-11-30T16:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T00:18:04","slug":"contours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/11\/30\/contours\/","title":{"rendered":"Contours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omid-armin-a5EbQpl-IHw-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omid-armin-a5EbQpl-IHw-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omid-armin-a5EbQpl-IHw-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omid-armin-a5EbQpl-IHw-unsplash-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Contours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You imagine<br \/>\nthat you are<br \/>\nyour body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">As if<br \/>\nyou could be<br \/>\ncontained<br \/>\nin a cranial<br \/>\ncavity<br \/>\nthe size of a<br \/>\nsmall<br \/>\nmuskmelon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then you<br \/>\ncompound<br \/>\nthe error<br \/>\nby comparing<br \/>\nthe topography<br \/>\nof your skin<br \/>\nto other<br \/>\nskins,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">as if<br \/>\nthat was<br \/>\nanything other<br \/>\nthan a<br \/>\nfootnote<br \/>\nin the volumes<br \/>\nthat would be<br \/>\nrequired to<br \/>\ncomprehend<br \/>\nthe eternity<br \/>\nthat you contain,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">as if<br \/>\nyou can be<br \/>\ncontained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Consider<br \/>\nadopting a<br \/>\nmeditation<br \/>\npractice<br \/>\nwherein your<br \/>\nintention is to<br \/>\nmove your<br \/>\nawareness<br \/>\noutside your<br \/>\nmuskmelon,<br \/>\nfor just a few<br \/>\nmoments,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and allow<br \/>\nyour Self<br \/>\nto expand<br \/>\nalong the<br \/>\nendless<br \/>\ncontours of<br \/>\nyour Soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Omid Armin; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Contours You imagine that you are your body. As if you could be contained in a cranial cavity the size of a small muskmelon. Then you compound the error by comparing the topography of your skin to other skins, as if that was anything other than a footnote in the volumes that would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}