{"id":4596,"date":"2018-03-15T04:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2018-03-15T04:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:07:52","slug":"be-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4596","title":{"rendered":"be here now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"fie36-0-0\">It is like playing music disrupts the thinking of ordinary thinking. Just like any new activity would. If you balance a ping pong ball in one hand while walking down the street your thoughts are mostly sucked into thinking about the balancing and it keeps you more involved in the present. All those mystical texts with directions essentially along the lines of &#8220;be here now&#8221;, could just as easily said &#8220;balance a ping pong ball while walking down the street&#8221; or &#8220;play new music&#8221;. I bet one might arrive in the same place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is like playing music disrupts the thinking of ordinary thinking. Just like any new activity would. If you balance a ping pong ball in one hand while walking down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4596\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}