{"id":38330,"date":"2011-05-14T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=38330"},"modified":"2011-05-14T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:51:02","slug":"gob-smacked-by-the-beauty-and-despair-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/gob-smacked-by-the-beauty-and-despair-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gob smacked by the beauty and despair of the world&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Spend the day with a mystic, lunatic, or writer. Or, for that matter, a child (who, if schooling and society don\u2019t manage to weld shut his door to amazement, will no doubt one day become a mystic, lunatic, or writer). These people have their heads screwed on sideways and hobble around gob smacked by the beauty and despair of the world. If you opt to spend the day with a child, try to find a small one, preferably raised by hippies on a commune on the coast, but really any child will work, if you actually pay attention to what <em>they<\/em> have to show <em>you<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Munju Ravindra: From the essay, <em>Wonder: A Practice for Everyday Life<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spend the day with a mystic, lunatic, or writer. Or, for that matter, a child (who, if schooling and society don\u2019t manage to weld shut his door to amazement, will no doubt one day become a mystic, lunatic, or writer). These people have their heads screwed on sideways and hobble around gob smacked by the &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Gob smacked by the beauty and despair of the world&#8230;&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/gob-smacked-by-the-beauty-and-despair-of-the-world\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8216;Gob smacked by the beauty and despair of the world&#8230;&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}