{"id":4128,"date":"2020-06-25T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2020-06-25T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:40:58","slug":"the-art-of-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/06\/25\/the-art-of-doing-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATURE SUBMISSION:<\/p>\n<p>There are twelve rules of enlightenment. They cover elements of Buddhist philosophy such as proper meditation, simplicity, and a constant reflection on necessity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s this last part that bothers Alicia most. The more she reflects on what&#8217;s truly necessary, the more she realizes that her life has lost all sense of meaning. It&#8217;s enough to make her want to go live in the woods someplace like a hermit and just contemplate nature every day.<\/p>\n<p>Nature wants nothing to do with Alicia&#8217;s existential crisis. It doesn&#8217;t care that it&#8217;s meaningless. It just wants to start recomposting her as soon as possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Laura Stacks<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATURE SUBMISSION: There are twelve rules of enlightenment. They cover elements of Buddhist philosophy such as proper meditation, simplicity, and a constant reflection on necessity. It&#8217;s this last part that bothers Alicia most. The more she reflects on what&#8217;s truly necessary, the more she realizes that her life has lost all sense of meaning. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[736,9175,1561,8207,5504,5443,2191,5564,9176,3744,9060,6357,2907,1773,9177,817],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-art","tag-buddhism","tag-crisis","tag-elements","tag-enlightenment","tag-hermit","tag-life","tag-meaning","tag-meditation","tag-nature","tag-nature-contest","tag-necessity","tag-nothing","tag-philosophy","tag-simplicity","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}