{"id":1808,"date":"2008-08-04T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/stepping-off-the-track\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:08:05","slug":"stepping-off-the-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/stepping-off-the-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping off the track"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>What&rsquo;s tragic is never living one&rsquo;s life: failing to be present to the moments as they pass, failing to see, failing to participate.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&rsquo;t always known this, and even now I know and live it imperfectly. I&rsquo;m learning to live in the face of illness and troubles and aging and uncertainty, which means un-learning being depressed and self-absorbed about my own troubles, and realizing that life goes on in every moment, it is we who step off the track and feel like it&rsquo;s going on without us, or convince ourselves that &laquo; life &raquo; belongs to other people, or a previous time never to be recaptured. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a 5 minute break right now and go read the whole post <a href=\"http:\/\/cassandrapages.typepad.com\/the_cassandra_pages\/2008\/07\/in-the-comments.html\">at Beth&rsquo;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s tragic is never living one&rsquo;s life: failing to be present to the moments as they pass, failing to see, failing to participate. I haven&rsquo;t always known this, and even now I know and live it imperfectly. I&rsquo;m learning to live in the face of illness and troubles and aging and uncertainty, which means un-learning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/stepping-off-the-track\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stepping off the track<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}