{"id":650,"date":"2019-08-15T00:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=650"},"modified":"2019-09-02T01:35:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:35:54","slug":"tending-joy-and-practicing-delight-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/08\/15\/tending-joy-and-practicing-delight-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"REST w\/Ross Gay &#8220;Tending Joy &#8230; &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>above image:   Cranesbill, adobe stock<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this week&#8217;s REST, we direct you to: <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/series\/podcast\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight\/\">On Being with Krista Tippett&#8217;s interview with Ross Gay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Tending Joy and Practicing Delight<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is a question floating around the world right now: \u201cHow can we be joyful in a moment like this?\u201d To which writer Ross Gay responds: \u201cHow can we&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;be joyful,&nbsp;<em>especially<\/em>&nbsp;in a moment like this?\u201d He says joy has nothing to do with ease and \u201ceverything to do with the fact that we\u2019re all going to die.\u201d The ephemeral nature of our being allows him to find delight in all sorts of places (especially his community garden). To be with Ross Gay is to train your gaze to see the wonderful alongside the terrible, to attend to and meditate on what you love, even in the work of justice. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/ross-gay-tending-joy-and-practicing-delight\/\">click to listen<\/a> to the full interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REST. {revolt. repeat.}<br \/>\nOn Being with Krista Tippett&#8217;s interview with Ross Gay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[134,82,135,136],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest","tag-on-being","tag-rest","tag-ross-gay","tag-tending-joy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cranesbill-Landscapes-Nature-Plant-Flower-Tender-F-2763.jpg?fit=596%2C406&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}