{"id":568,"date":"2020-03-26T14:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T21:48:55","slug":"sheltered-in-place-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Sheltered in Place, Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am living in slow motion here in my little house.  Everything has come to a grinding halt, and like everyone, I am spending an inordinate amount of time staring at screens: iPhone, laptop, television.  Yoga practice comes through a screen; my meditation experiences begin through an app, and now my social experiences?  People are ZOOMing happy hours, getting the brief respite a friendly face can bring.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I worry over it, even as a sit in front of this keyboard, reading and writing for hours at a time.  Is this the way we are to live?  Barefoot and in our robes at 2:30 in the afternoon, looking out at the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/ncov2019.live\/data\">the COVID19 numbers<\/a>, and thinking about what comes next?  &#8220;It&#8217;s going to get worse before it gets better,&#8221; say the experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might seem glum, but in truth, the smiling, super-productive people worry me.  (I don&#8217;t begrudge anyone the fact that they got dressed.  I could be taking things a little too far today.) It&#8217;s just that this is no time to be posting things on social media that makes it seem like the good times just don&#8217;t stop, and that stock-piled hand-sanitizer and toilet paper are going to carry us through unscathed.  People are dying.  In New York City, they are putting the dead in refrigerated trucks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a purposeful way to live in a world rendered eerie and unrecognizable by a virus we cannot stop.  For me, I think it involves getting off screens for a sizable part of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strange thing to be saying on the day that I resurrect my blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am living in slow motion here in my little house. Everything has come to a grinding halt, and like everyone, I am spending an inordinate amount of time staring at screens: iPhone, laptop, television. Yoga practice comes through a screen; my meditation experiences begin through an app, and now my social experiences? People are [&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-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexfaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}