{"id":1524,"date":"2020-07-16T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:50:31","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/today\/","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/day.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1525\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today<\/p>\n<p>We wake again<br \/>\nto plot another graph of time<br \/>\nlinger over coffee<br \/>\nbemoan tragedy<br \/>\nfear<br \/>\nfor our lives<br \/>\nour nation<br \/>\n&#8230;our sanity<\/p>\n<p>Today we set again<br \/>\na way forward<br \/>\nwhile standing still<br \/>\na way out<br \/>\nwhile enshrined within<br \/>\nthe walls of our imaginations<br \/>\nconfined<br \/>\nby discontent<\/p>\n<p>Today we bring again<br \/>\nto the table<br \/>\nnew beginnings<br \/>\nold understandings<br \/>\nmental meanderings<br \/>\ndistracted by the present<\/p>\n<p>Today time again enfolds us<br \/>\nwith the luminous space<br \/>\nbetween<br \/>\npast and future<br \/>\nencasing our loneliness<br \/>\nand demanding<br \/>\nour now<\/p>\n<p>Today we choose again<br \/>\nto live with<br \/>\nthe unknown<br \/>\nseeking hope in<br \/>\nour uncertainty<br \/>\nand peace<br \/>\nin our fleeting plans<\/p>\n<p>Today we again touch<br \/>\nour tomorrows<br \/>\nhesitant to dream<br \/>\nbut insisting on the ridiculous hope<br \/>\nthat lodges between<br \/>\nbreast bone<br \/>\nand back bone<br \/>\nthat today is the only<br \/>\nand best<br \/>\ngift we are given.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today We wake again to plot another graph of time linger over coffee bemoan tragedy fear for our lives our nation &#8230;our sanity Today we set again a way forward while standing still a way out while enshrined within the walls of our imaginations confined by discontent Today we bring again to the table new &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,29,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}