{"id":2955,"date":"2013-03-24T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/what-matters-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-24T06:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T10:30:33","slug":"what-matters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/what-matters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a fascinating <a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/24\/magazine\/creating-the-all-terrain-human.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=0&amp;src=dayp\" target=\"_self\">piece<\/a> in this week&#39;s NEW YORK TIMES about ultra-distance runner Kilian Jornet. His feats of athleticism \u2013 running hundreds of miles at a time in mountainous terrain \u2013 are a testament to the machine that is the human body.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s equally fascinating, though, is the spirit with which he accomplishes these challenges.&#0160; While most of his peers are focused on finishing an event in the fastest time possible, Jornet is observing and admiring the natural beauty of the landscape through which he&#39;s running \u2013 finishing first, which he often does, is merely a side benefit.<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>What are you running after? I asked Jornet. Having beaten men, do you now want to challenge the mountains? He gently corrected me. You don\u2019t beat the mountains. You go when they permit, he said. The speed records and \u201cfirsts\u201d aren\u2019t important except for motivation, he insisted. Then he mentioned the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Hughes Galeano, who once likened the ideal of Utopia to the horizon \u2014 goals that retreat even as we chase them. \u201cThe important thing is not to catch something,\u201d said Jornet,&#0160; &quot;What matters in life is the pursuit, and everything we learn along the way. \u201cThe important thing,\u201d he said, \u201cis moving.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across a fascinating piece in this week&#39;s NEW YORK TIMES about ultra-distance runner Kilian Jornet. His feats of athleticism \u2013 running hundreds of miles at a time in mountainous terrain \u2013 are a testament to the machine that is the human body.&#0160; What&#39;s equally fascinating, though, is the spirit with which he accomplishes these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}