{"id":1985,"date":"2012-09-13T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2012-09-13T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:03:21","slug":"whoa-nelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Whoa Nelly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I was introduced to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowmovement.com\/\">slow movement<\/a>. It&#8217;s about slowing down and taking time to appreciate life. So often when we walk or drive around, we are completely oblivious to the beauty of life that surrounds us. The slow movement is also about slowing down when we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowmovement.com\/connect-food.php\">eat<\/a>, actually tasting our food, and appreciating where the food came from and its significance to the culture. Lifehacker.com featured a post by Leo Widrich who talks about how he slowed things down a bit. In particular, he talks about the speed exercise:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1987\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turtle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turtle-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turtle-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turtle-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1191760\">NLTeddy<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;It is very simple. You pick a route to walk and you walk at half the speed that you normally do. You do this for 20 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Slowing things down has many benefits physically and emotionally. Any one out there a part of the slow movement? Any one want to try? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5942908\/slowing-down\">Lifehacker: Slowing Down.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I was introduced to the slow movement. It&#8217;s about slowing down and taking time to appreciate life. So often when we walk or drive around, we are completely oblivious to the beauty of life that surrounds us. The slow movement is also about slowing down when we eat, actually tasting our food, and appreciating where the<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=1985\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,166],"tags":[11,52,29,26,79],"coauthors":[15],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reblogged","tag-acceptance","tag-human","tag-journey","tag-mindfulness","tag-perspective"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/turtle-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}