{"id":702,"date":"2006-06-29T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-12-31T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T07:16:34","slug":"where-do-i-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"where do i start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i may not ever publish this for some time but it&#8217;s quite significant that it makes into the blogsphere. anyway, i am still recovering from a shock to my emotional system from this past weekend and my attempt to express it in any medium will fall short of it. it would be foolish to suggest i&#8217;ve never had such intense feelings but at the same time, given enough experience, it would be not entirely accurate to suggest that what i am feeling is incomparable. granted, i haven&#8217;t felt much emotions and &#8216;aliveness&#8217; in the past 3 years but there is still enough reference to appreciate its relative context.considering<\/p>\n<p> the atypical&nbsp; circumstances around it all, it&#8217;s hardly surprising that it&#8217;s overwhelming. there&#8217;s some resistance to not elevate the experience to some sort of holy spiritual revelation but to continue the path of unreasonableness, i dare say that it is a life changing experience. it reminds me of coming back from a meditation retreat where your convictions are renewed and the sense of purpose becomes a driver of powerful actions. the details of these changes lack clarity at the moment but the efficiency of &#8216;work&#8217; continues to be amplified in order to create more time for life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;at this point, putting the experience into of my life (and why do i deserve this kind of thinking), i feel almost frightened by the spiritual bliss of my life to date. the more bliss, the more responsibility to share and apply it to benefit of all. This view i must keep in the forefront of it all, otherwise, self indulgence and thoughts of unworthiness will plague me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i may not ever publish this for some time but it&#8217;s quite significant that it makes into the blogsphere. anyway, i am still recovering from a shock to my emotional system from this past weekend and my attempt to express it in any medium will fall short of it. it would be foolish to suggest i&#8217;ve never had such intense feelings but at the same time, given enough experience, it would be not entirely accurate to suggest that what i am feeling is incomparable. granted, i haven&#8217;t felt much emotions and &#8216;aliveness&#8217; in the past 3 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-bk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}