{"id":12694,"date":"2009-04-14T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/easter-morn\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:57:29","slug":"easter-morn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/easter-morn\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Morn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The magic came at 6:25 AM.&#0160; I was 50 minutes into the run when conditions turned auspicious.&#0160; The fleshly vehicle, now properly stoked, rose to the occasion of some serious striding under the sign of a celestial conjunction:&#0160; the Moon, on the wane but still nearly full, was setting over Dinosaur Mountain&#0160;just as&#0160; Old Sol began his ascent over the Superstitions.&#0160; The heavy rains of the day before had released the subtle scents of the desert.&#0160; Their dominant note&#0160;was supplied&#0160;by the tiny oily dark green leaves of the creosote bush.&#0160; The palo verdes&#0160;were in bloom.&#0160; The body rose, but receded, to enable that peculiar awareness in which one is Emerson&#39;s &quot;transparent eyeball&quot; witnessing Santayana&#39;s&#0160;realm of essence.&#0160; There seemed in that moment nothing better to be than a&#0160;transparent transcendental eyeball&#0160;running down a road.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magic came at 6:25 AM.&#0160; I was 50 minutes into the run when conditions turned auspicious.&#0160; The fleshly vehicle, now properly stoked, rose to the occasion of some serious striding under the sign of a celestial conjunction:&#0160; the Moon, on the wane but still nearly full, was setting over Dinosaur Mountain&#0160;just as&#0160; Old Sol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/easter-morn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easter Morn&#8221;<\/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":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}