{"id":1545,"date":"2018-06-07T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:32:44","slug":"planning-your-summer-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2018\/06\/07\/planning-your-summer-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Your Summer Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is the perfect time for that special activity you&#8217;ve been putting off all year. Vacation, trip home, the early morning climb to the top of Mt. Hood, or that meditation retreat to finally get your &#8220;head straight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. Or maybe not. Because it seems like nothing in life, least of all our heads, can ever be put completely and permanently straight.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of head-straightening meditation retreats, Brent Oliver writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/tricycle.org\/trikedaily\/5-things-surprise-meditation-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trike Daily (31 May 2018)<\/strong><\/a> says retreats are &#8220;not all calm and cosmic-flavored bubble gum.&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve never been. But if you&#8217;re considering your first retreat this summer you might appreciate some of Brent&#8217;s observations. Or, you might just go with no preconceptions and an open mind.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/tricycle.org\/trikedaily\/5-things-surprise-meditation-retreat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>5 Things That Might Surprise You about Meditation Retreats<\/strong><\/a>, Brent Oliver (Trike Daily, 31 May 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is the perfect time for that special activity you&#8217;ve been putting off all year. Vacation, trip home, the early morning climb to the top of Mt. Hood, or that meditation retreat to finally get your &#8220;head straight.&#8221; Maybe. Or maybe not. Because it seems like nothing in life, least of all our heads, can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-retreats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}