{"id":73,"date":"2008-07-09T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natashasworld.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/09\/love-after-love\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T07:20:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T11:20:16","slug":"love-after-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/09\/love-after-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Love After Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend from work suggested I watch an interview that <a title=\"Oprah Winfrey and&lt;br\/&gt;Jon Kabat-Zinn - Soul Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.oprah.com\/spiritself\/oss\/guest\/oss_guest_jkabatzinn.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah had with<br \/>\nJon Kabat-Zinn<\/a> and the interview was awesome. During their conversation,<br \/>\nthe following poem was mentioned and all I can say is, &#8220;Wow&#8221;.<br \/>\nVery simple, yet profound. Enjoy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Love After Love <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The time will come<br \/>\nwhen, with elation,<br \/>\nyou will greet yourself arriving<br \/>\nat your own door, in your own mirror,<br \/>\nand each will smile at the other\u2019s welcome,<br \/>\nand say, sit here. Eat.<br \/>\nYou will love again the stranger who was your self.<br \/>\nGive wine. Give bread. Give back your heart<br \/>\nto itself, to the stranger who has loved you<br \/>\nall your life, whom you ignored<br \/>\nfor another, who knows you by heart.<br \/>\nTake down the love letters from the bookshelf,<br \/>\nthe photographs, the desperate notes,<br \/>\npeel your own image from the mirror.<br \/>\nSit. Feast on your life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~ by Derek Walcott ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend from work suggested I watch an interview that Oprah had with Jon Kabat-Zinn and the interview was awesome. During their conversation, the following poem was mentioned and all I can say is, &#8220;Wow&#8221;. Very simple, yet profound. Enjoy. \ud83d\ude42 &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Love After Love The time will come when,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,166],"tags":[163,165,164,162],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-derek-walcott","tag-jon-kabat-zinn","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natashasworld.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}