{"id":1436,"date":"2020-03-08T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2020-03-08T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T11:57:15","slug":"slowing-with-a-labrador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Slowing? With a Labrador?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to write my spiritual transformation paper on my experiences with fasting. I&#8217;m going to compare\/contrast abstaining from food (something I do somewhat regularly) and abstaining from speaking (something I&#8217;ve never done). I&#8217;m working on a plan for an 8 hour speaking fast, and trying to work some stillness and solitude in at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While walking the most perfect dog in the world this morning (that dog being Deuteronomy James Reed Batty), I had some thoughts about how this slowing\/no speaking fast is going to work. Concerns is a better word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How am I going to walk this dog <em>without <\/em>speaking to him? &#8220;Come on&#8221; is a word frequently used when walking a Labrador. One thought I had about how to not say &#8220;Let&#8217;s get going, Deut&#8221; is to slow down, and let him sniff for <em>as long as he wants, at all the places he wants. <\/em>That will cause me to be slow, for sure! I wonder how much time I should plan on adding to my walk if I let him take as much time as he wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to write my spiritual transformation paper on my experiences with fasting. I&#8217;m going to compare\/contrast abstaining from food (something I do somewhat regularly) and abstaining from speaking (something I&#8217;ve never done). I&#8217;m working on a plan for an 8 hour speaking fast, and trying to work some stillness and solitude in at the &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1436\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1436","6":"format-standard","7":"category-sf100"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}