{"id":24664,"date":"2023-04-06T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:03:34","slug":"thoughts-while-washing-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/thoughts-while-washing-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts while washing dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It occurs to me that I spend time chasing after things that are already mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I look for measurements of my popularity, but I already know that I am loved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I work to prove my value, but my worth has always been intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I seek joy in habits that don&#8217;t bring me joy, yet I knew how to have it long ago, dancing on the lawn as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joy comes after effort, but I don&#8217;t need to work so hard to find things that I am already carrying in my pocket. I no longer dance spontaneously on the front lawn, but the essential formula remains: Joy comes from just letting go.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24677\" width=\"337\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PXL_20230324_025301367-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that I spend time chasing after things that are already mine. I look for measurements of my popularity, but I already know that I am loved. I work to prove my value, but my worth has always been intact. I seek joy in habits that don&#8217;t bring me joy, yet I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/thoughts-while-washing-dishes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts while washing dishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24711,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions\/24711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}