{"id":2754,"date":"2019-02-13T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/beautiful-moments\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:27:27","slug":"beautiful-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/beautiful-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Op-Ed in the NY TIMES, Melissa Broder poignantly describes her search for meaning, for belonging.&#0160; Her search is not unlike the motivation of the artist who seeks to capture and express the essence of the moment:<\/p>\n<p><em>Meditating in the church, its colossal, swooping arches lit by the fires of hundreds of red glass prayer candles \u2014 so many wishes and desires here on Earth \u2014 I realized that my sadness had not been romantic in essence, but concerned the ephemeral nature of all beauty. It\u2019s sad that there\u2019s nothing we as human beings can do to freeze a beautiful moment. It\u2019s sad how many beautiful moments have come and gone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/09\/style\/love-infatuation-longing.html\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Op-Ed in the NY TIMES, Melissa Broder poignantly describes her search for meaning, for belonging.&#0160; Her search is not unlike the motivation of the artist who seeks to capture and express the essence of the moment: Meditating in the church, its colossal, swooping arches lit by the fires of hundreds of red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}