{"id":454,"date":"2014-06-25T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/sound-of-silence\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T07:00:50","slug":"sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Renaissance Girl<\/p>\n<p>Four times a week I feed the fish in the Koi pond near the church. \u00a0It&#8217;s an enclosed space &#8211; literally inside the walls &#8211; and I&#8217;ve started looking forward to those moments of quiet, me and the fish and the sound of water trickling and wind through the bamboo. Sometimes I laugh as they tussle over first dibs on their food. Sometimes I barely want to breathe so as not to disturb the silence. But I always\u00a0smile when they see me coming and rush to the side of the pond, mouths gaping. So eager and dependent and just themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;m surprised by the things that start out as &#8220;duties&#8221; and end up being gifts. I just have to allow my perspective to be changed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/80l7p44g40g1tthgg34ewzoc3a.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087079\" src=\"http:\/\/80l7p44g40g1tthgg34ewzoc3a.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fish-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"fish\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/YbS5Z3L6rRQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/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>By Renaissance Girl Four times a week I feed the fish in the Koi pond near the church. \u00a0It&#8217;s an enclosed space &#8211; literally inside the walls &#8211; and I&#8217;ve started looking forward to those moments of quiet, me and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/sound-of-silence\/\">Continue reading <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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}