{"id":8793,"date":"2015-07-04T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2015-06-28T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T11:21:57","slug":"gerard-sarnat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gerard-sarnat\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard Sarnat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>69th Birthday Transmission<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u201cThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> &#8212;<strong> <\/strong>Thoreau<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Day two, early early morning group sit,<br \/>\nzendo floor tripodding with potential<br \/>\ngreat orthopedic cost, I can\u2019t turn off itches or chatter.<\/p>\n<p>Day four, bleary in a chair, contemplative-in-training<br \/>\ngrappling with road kill, the lure of a laptop\u2019s<br \/>\nwarmth would sure feel good on my knees.<\/p>\n<p>Day six, yogi monkeyminds forbidden<br \/>\nwriting paper no less computers,<br \/>\nthere\u2019s zip chance for such a simple silent retreat solution.<\/p>\n<p>Day eight, as my washed-out self tosses and turns in the dorm,<br \/>\na discombobulated surgeon<br \/>\nthreatens to perform a personalized snoroplasty.<\/p>\n<p>Day ten, we harvest garden veggies.<br \/>\nAt last the creek flows downhill, the pond comes alive.<br \/>\nI can hear my little heart quiver.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerard Sarnat<\/strong> authored 2010\u2019s HOMELESS CHRONICLES<em>,<\/em> 2012\u2019s <em>Disputes<\/em>, and 2014\u2019s <em>17s<\/em>. He\u2019s a physician who\u2019s setup\/staffed clinics for the disenfranchised, CEO of healthcare organizations, and a Stanford professor. For Huffington Post reviews, reading dates including Stanford etc.; visit <a href=\"http:\/\/gerardsarnat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gerard Sarnat.com<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 69th Birthday Transmission \u201cThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212; Thoreau Day two, early early morning group sit, zendo floor tripodding with potential great orthopedic cost, I can\u2019t turn off itches or chatter. Day four, bleary in a chair, contemplative-in-training grappling with road kill, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}