{"id":2870,"date":"2015-03-08T11:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/the-secret\/"},"modified":"2015-03-08T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T15:39:01","slug":"the-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2015\/03\/the-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>A provocative excerpt from the book &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pilgrim-Tinker-Harper-Perennial-Classics\/dp\/0061233323\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425828973&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=pilgrim+at+tinker+creek\" target=\"_self\">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek&quot;<\/a> by Annie Dillard:<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><em>The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought. The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise\u2026 I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/03\/04\/annie-dillard-pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-seeing\/\" target=\"_self\">thanks BP<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; A provocative excerpt from the book &quot;Pilgrim at Tinker Creek&quot; by Annie Dillard: &#0160; The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although [&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-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}