{"id":4053,"date":"2015-06-30T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T03:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2015-07-01T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T04:00:11","slug":"4053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"Like a church mouse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lefffyfencccy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4056\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lefffyfencccy1.jpg\" alt=\"lefffyfencccy\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lefffyfencccy1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lefffyfencccy1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was sitting in my office today\u2026. in the quietest of quiet.\u00a0 And my computer \u201cdinged.\u201d\u00a0 Someone had sent me a message.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And in that message was the best quote ever.<\/p>\n<p>It embodies the standard I have in my head, and my heart\u2026. for my own life.\u00a0 Sometimes I don\u2019t live up to it.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, here is the quote by Sai Ali Baba.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is profound, in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps, that which we do not often consider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes it improve on the silence?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How often do we try to be in our own silence and experience how that feels at any given moment.\u00a0 Perhaps, this moment.<\/p>\n<p>With that, I have no more words of my own tonight.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> T. S. Eliot<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Silence is a source of great strength.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Lao Tzu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting in my office today\u2026. in the quietest of quiet.\u00a0 And my computer \u201cdinged.\u201d\u00a0 Someone had sent me a message.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And in that message was the best quote ever. It embodies the standard I have in my head, and my heart\u2026. for my own life.\u00a0 Sometimes I don\u2019t live up to it. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}