{"id":6168,"date":"2024-01-27T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2024-01-27T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:10:48","slug":"senior-virtues-of-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6168","title":{"rendered":"SENIOR VIRTUES OF SLOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; is better than the alternative&#8212;&#8216;stopped&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; can be thought of as taking longer to get to the stop sign of life.<br>Hopefully that counts for something&#8212;at least it helps people laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; gives opportunities to notice and understand important things you may otherwise miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; definitely makes it easier to hear from God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; is good&#8212;make the best use of it, when &#8216;hurry up&#8217; becomes an oxymoron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; forces less worry about all the things you can&#8217;t get done, or simply can&#8217;t do anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Slow&#8217; is better than the alternative&#8212;&#8216;stopped&#8217;. &#8216;Slow&#8217; can be thought of as taking longer to get to the stop sign of life.Hopefully that counts for something&#8212;at least it helps people laugh. &#8216;Slow&#8217; gives opportunities to notice and understand important things you may otherwise miss. &#8216;Slow&#8217; definitely makes it easier to hear from God. &#8216;Slow&#8217; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}