{"id":2844,"date":"2015-12-13T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/pure-devotion\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T13:58:03","slug":"pure-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/12\/pure-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Annie Dillard&#39;s observation about living in the present is equally descriptive of the artist&#39;s ideal state of mind when creating or performing:<\/p>\n<p><em>What I call innocence is the spirit\u2019s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d18347a7970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2366\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d18347a7970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d18347a7970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"2366\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Annie Dillard&#39;s observation about living in the present is equally descriptive of the artist&#39;s ideal state of mind when creating or performing: What I call innocence is the spirit\u2019s unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration. [ from Pilgrim at Tinker [&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-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","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=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}