{"id":1625,"date":"2004-12-23T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/12\/23\/various-and-sundry-late-advent-thou"},"modified":"2004-12-23T16:16:31","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T20:16:31","slug":"various-and-sundry-late-advent-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/12\/23\/various-and-sundry-late-advent-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Various and sundry late Advent thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a847'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas is almost here!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m spending it in a monastery, which many people seem to think is a<br \/>\nbit odd.&nbsp; But if you regard it as a religious holiday, it&#8217;s not<br \/>\nTHAT odd, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I sent out cards today.&nbsp; Almost all of them.&nbsp; I figure that<br \/>\nsince Christmas is 12 days long, they&#8217;ll arrive during Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing that I have become reacquainted with in the monastery is<br \/>\nthe value of silence.&nbsp; The SSJE brothers do not have a vow of<br \/>\nsilence, but they do try to keep a quiet atmosphere.&nbsp; And so one<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t have to talk very much if one doesn&#8217;t want to.&nbsp; And it&#8217;s<br \/>\nsomething of a relief not to have to interact with people<br \/>\nverbally.&nbsp; But it forces you to deal with them more intimately, by<br \/>\nlooking at their face and their eyes (which I think we can often avoid<br \/>\nin day-to-day life and work), and seeing what&#8217;s written there.<\/p>\n<p>May you have a Merry Christmas, full of light, peace, and joy.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be back in a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is almost here! I&#8217;m spending it in a monastery, which many people seem to think is a bit odd.&nbsp; But if you regard it as a religious holiday, it&#8217;s not THAT odd, I think. I sent out cards today.&nbsp; Almost all of them.&nbsp; I figure that since Christmas is 12 days long, they&#8217;ll arrive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day2day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-qd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}