{"id":2765,"date":"2018-11-05T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/alive\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:21:10","slug":"alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2018\/11\/alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many, if not most, creative people \u2013 poets, musicians, artists \u2013 are motivated by a frustration with ordinary language as the sole means of communicating to others the sense of wonder they experience in the world around them.<\/p>\n<p>Came across this poetic insight attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus and which speaks to this feeling:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> The universe is alive, and has fire in it, and is full of gods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2018\/10\/31\/how-to-be-a-good-creature-sy-montgomery\/?mc_cid=a6cf5f99ac&amp;mc_eid=d0436d7036\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bdf42f200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3067\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bdf42f200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad3bdf42f200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3067\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many, if not most, creative people \u2013 poets, musicians, artists \u2013 are motivated by a frustration with ordinary language as the sole means of communicating to others the sense of wonder they experience in the world around them. Came across this poetic insight attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus and which speaks [&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-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}