{"id":5089,"date":"2017-07-07T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2017-07-07T09:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:27:44","slug":"return-to-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/return-to-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I recently took a break from my writing to focus on family time, I was off the couch and far more active than I usually am, and I like the feeling so much that I don\u2019t want to lose it. Now that I\u2019m back to writing, which keeps me inactive for hours, I\u2019m trying to make a point of taking longer walks, closer to two miles, rather than my old strolls to meet a friend for tea a block away.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also resumed my version of Tai Chi: a combination of ten basic movements I learned from Jake Mace<\/a> online, an abbreviated Cheng Man Ching short form<\/a> I learned from Patrick Lau<\/a> in San Francisco, and a nice little piece I learned from a local teacher here in CT (embrace tiger, return to mountain).<\/p>\n

I am so not an expert, but I don\u2019t need to be. I love the limber, centered, grounded feeling that my exercise brings me, and it makes it more bearable to return to the couch. They say sitting is the new smoking<\/a>\u00a0for the impact it has on our health, and I can feel that in my own body. If you\u2019re a writer or person with another sedentary job, I\u2019d love to hear what you do to keep moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I recently took a break from my writing to focus on family time, I was off the couch and far more active than I usually am, and I like the feeling so much that I don\u2019t want to lose it. Now that I\u2019m back to writing, which keeps me inactive for hours, I\u2019m trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-5089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}