{"id":2758,"date":"2018-12-28T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/12\/flicker-of-eternity\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:05:53","slug":"flicker-of-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/12\/flicker-of-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Flicker of Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a compelling essay in the NY TIMES by Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke who has cancer and shares how the disease has caused her to reevaluate her life.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>I cannot imagine what it is like to be in her shoes, but her description reminds me of those times wandering the woods searching for a perfect image and, by so doing, experiencing the timelessness of the natural world more fully:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#0160;In losing my future, the mundane began to sparkle. The things I love \u2014 the things I should love \u2014 become clearer, brighter. This is transcendence, the past and the future experienced together in moments where I can see a flicker of eternity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/resolutions-hope-cancer-god.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a compelling essay in the NY TIMES by Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke who has cancer and shares how the disease has caused her to reevaluate her life.&#0160; I cannot imagine what it is like to be in her shoes, but her description reminds me of those times wandering the woods searching [&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-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}