{"id":1375,"date":"2010-02-27T06:09:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T06:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-07-31T18:02:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:02:52","slug":"go-back-to-bed-liz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/go-back-to-bed-liz\/","title":{"rendered":"go back to bed, liz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My new found spirituality made it essential to me that we not battle.  So this was my position &#8211; I would neither defend myself from him, nor would I fight him.  For the longest time, against he counsel of all who cared about me, I resisted even consulting a lawyer, because I considered even that to be an act of war.  I wanted to be all Ghandi about this.  I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this.  Not realizing at the time that both Ghandi and Mandela were <em>lawyers<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; Elizabeth Gilbert<\/p>\n<p>The sum of Eat Pray Love is greater than its parts, but the parts are pretty good.  Especially the one about the lawyers. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Eat-Pray-Love1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love\" width=\"450\" height=\"731\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Eat-Pray-Love1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Gilbert-Eat-Pray-Love1-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><center>Eat Pray Love<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/elizabeth-gilbert-what-every-writer-should-hear\/\">Elizabeth Gilbert&#8217;s<\/a> memoir.  It was newish, ninety-nine cents and in a thrift store.  <\/p>\n<p>I read it tonight.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving it to my mother tomorrow.  <\/p>\n<p>I hope she, like me, reads it in the spirit of a certain ninth generation Balinese medicine man &#8211; below the neck. <\/p>\n<p>Now, off to yoga.  Not because of the book, but because cortisol is killing me. <\/p>\n<p>Namaste. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My new found spirituality made it essential to me that we not battle. So this was my position &#8211; I would neither defend myself from him, nor would I fight him. For the longest time, against he counsel of all who cared about me, I resisted even consulting a lawyer, because I considered even that<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}