{"id":2865,"date":"2015-04-28T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/04\/to-be-surprised\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T13:04:15","slug":"to-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/04\/to-be-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Surprised&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This telling observation by Ralph Waldo Emerson, applied to creative endeavors, speaks to the powerful notion of sidestepping the intellectual and yielding to the emotional:<\/p>\n<p><em>The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety &#8230; and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/01\/26\/emerson-circles\/\" target=\"_self\">thanks BP<\/a>]<\/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\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb08251c72970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2366\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb08251c72970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01bb08251c72970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"2366\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This telling observation by Ralph Waldo Emerson, applied to creative endeavors, speaks to the powerful notion of sidestepping the intellectual and yielding to the emotional: The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety &#8230; and to do something without knowing how or why; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}