{"id":646,"date":"2014-12-10T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2014-12-10T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:09:42","slug":"646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/contemplation\/646\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting up in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why I bother to get up in the mornings.<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_648\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/morning.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-648\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"http:\/\/meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/morning.jpg\" alt=\"Good Morning\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/morning.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/morning-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waking up in morning<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><q>After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn&#8217;t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/q> &#8211; Richard Dawkins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I bother to get up in the mornings. After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn&#8217;t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationiseasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}