{"id":3005,"date":"2012-03-01T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/paradise-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T08:46:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:46:42","slug":"paradise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/paradise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I came across two separate reminders to pay attention to the "ordinary" days that seem to fly by more quickly than ever.<\/p>\n

Here's author Rudy Rucker from a recent interview<\/a> talking about the paintings of Bruegel:<\/p>\n

     ... his pictures evoke a sense of the divine nature of the physical world. Everything is alive. We're in paradise, if only we pay attention.<\/em><\/p>\n

And from an NPR radio interview, Alexander Payne, director of the movie The Descendants<\/em>: <\/em><\/p>\n

    … life is .. a collection of extraordinary, ordinary moments.  We just need to pay attention to them all — wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Last month I came across two separate reminders to pay attention to the "ordinary" days that seem to fly by more quickly than ever. Here's author Rudy Rucker from a recent interview talking about the paintings of Bruegel:      … his pictures evoke a sense of the divine nature of the physical world. Everything is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","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=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}