{"id":1219,"date":"2017-04-17T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:17:07","slug":"there-are-no-stupid-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2017\/04\/17\/there-are-no-stupid-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Stupid Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m “coming out” today. Here’s what I want you to know about me,<\/p>\n

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  1. I meditate regularly. Often alone. Often with others.<\/li>\n
  2. I think a lot about meditation, especially while I’m meditating.<\/li>\n
  3. I nap during meditation sometimes. I haven’t found an answer to this “problem” except to stop treating it as a problem.<\/li>\n
  4. Meditation feels special, but I try not to fool myself into thinking that it makes me special.<\/li>\n
  5. I tend not to talk about my meditation practice (#1) or what it’s like (#2-4), even though its an extremely interesting topic to me and I think I’d be happy to share.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I had a lot of questions about meditation when I first started. Some have been answered. Others persist. If unanswered questions<\/a> are keeping you from trying, or being satisfied with, meditation, send them my way. Start out, “Hi Alan,” and then follow wherever your fingers take you. alan@reed.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m “coming out” today. Here’s what I want you to know about me, I meditate regularly. Often alone. Often with others. I think a lot about meditation, especially while I’m meditating. I nap during meditation sometimes. I haven’t found an answer to this “problem” except to stop treating it as a problem. Meditation feels special, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,11],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-questions","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}