{"id":2183,"date":"2011-08-25T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2011-08-25T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T03:08:24","slug":"above-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/above-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Above. Before."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most nights, on my walk back to the front door of our condominium after letting the dog out, I turn left around the eastern edge of our building. As I do so, I usually look up at the dark sky. Tonight is no different. The big dipper hangs in God&#8217;s kitchen, it&#8217;s Pole Star shines down on the earthly heavens around me. The other constellations &#8211; those Greek gods and goddesses &#8211; the names of which I don&#8217;t know nor have ever cared to learn &#8211; follow my careful steps along the rough sidewalk. They know of my ignorance, yet they keep their distance. I know of there distance, yet I keep my ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>During each return walk, I recognize that I&#8217;ve made the short trip before. That I&#8217;ve fallen asleep and been jolted awake before. That I have dreamed before. That I&#8217;ve lived life before under these very stars that outline my existence with their outdated explosions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written from 10:45 pm to 11:05 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at home in Traverse City, Michigan.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most nights, on my walk back to the front door of our condominium after letting the dog out, I turn left around the eastern edge of our building. As I do so, I usually look up at the dark sky. Tonight is no different. The big dipper hangs in God&#8217;s kitchen, it&#8217;s Pole Star shines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-minutes","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}