{"id":20551,"date":"2018-06-22T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=20551"},"modified":"2018-06-22T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T14:06:20","slug":"jet-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/beautiful-places\/jet-lag\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming out of Jet Lag Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cMore and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"quote_book_link_22124113\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jet Lag means being up at 3 am for no good reason so &#8230; thought this celebrated travel writer can enlighten me:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In the age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow.\u00a0 In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can go on vacation to Paris or Hawaii or New Orleans three months from now, and you &#8216;ll have a tremendous time, I &#8216;m sure.\u00a0 But if you want to come back feeling new &#8211; alive and full of fresh hope and in love with the world &#8211; I think the place to visit may be Nowhere.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m home &#8211; my other home.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a bit of Gertrude Stein speak: &#8221; There&#8217;s no there there &#8230;<b>\u00a0&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/b>Home is wherever there&#8217;s people you care about &#8211; here or there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMore and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.&#8221; &#8211; Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Jet Lag means being up at 3 am for no good reason so &#8230; thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20559,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20551\/revisions\/20559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}