{"id":1380,"date":"2021-02-01T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2021-02-01T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:41:08","slug":"january-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"January Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pa-2021-013001-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>The truth of the matter is&#8230;I haven\u2019t really missed Instagram this past month. Another truth? I didn\u2019t get a whole heck of a lot of writing or work on my website done either. That was my intention \u2014 sort of anyway. BUT&#8230;I took lots of walks, did lots of baking, tried a new meditation app, did some hand sewing and knitting, read and reread good books, rediscovered other places to sit and look out the windows of our home, watched snow fall, heard gale winds howl, and rainstorms dance, and listened to classical music. The most radical act of all though was sitting and doing absolutely nothing else but put my arm around my furry beast, Oonagh, and allow myself to rest in that space and enjoy the sheer luxury of&#8230;doing nothing. The break has served me well. It\u2019s an art you know. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triciahersey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tricia Hersey<\/a>, of @thenapministry is an artist who speaks to this art in a language I understand. Perhaps she speaks it for you, too.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth of the matter is&#8230;I haven\u2019t really missed Instagram this past month. Another truth? I didn\u2019t get a whole heck of a lot of writing or work on my website done either. That was my intention \u2014 sort of anyway. BUT&#8230;I took lots of walks, did lots of baking, tried a new meditation app, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January Break&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[642,639,640,641],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul","tag-idle-time","tag-oonagh","tag-reading","tag-relaxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}