{"id":292,"date":"2005-02-17T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=292"},"modified":"2005-02-17T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T21:06:00","slug":"heart-stretches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/heart-stretches\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Stretches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--110867164734113111--><\/p>\n<p>For the last two weeks or so, I&#8217;ve been working as kitchen yogi, aka cook&#8217;s assistant here at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamyang.co.uk\">Centre<\/a>.  This means I spend most of a 9-3 shift pulsing between chopping veggies for 30 or 40 hot lunches and washing piles of big pots, pans and spoons.  <\/p>\n<p>After all the cooking, I return to my cell for a like number of hours of working online, pulsing between local body and cyberspace, between GMT and other timezones, between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/mha\">MHA<\/a> (for profit) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\">sCNN<\/a> (for passion), and between current conversations and future conferences.  Evenings and weekends I pulse between my two homes, here and Jill&#8217;s place.  <\/p>\n<p>I realized this morning that I&#8217;m involved in conversations in London, Chicago, Kathmandu, South Africa, Vancouver, Open Space (wherever that is) and a few other places that I can&#8217;t quite pin down on the map.  It&#8217;s getting to be quite the heart stretch, all this pulsation, and a very interesting world.  God knows I&#8217;m glad to be in the kitchen to keep it all ever so slightly tethered to ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last two weeks or so, I&#8217;ve been working as kitchen yogi, aka cook&#8217;s assistant here at the Centre. This means I spend most of a 9-3 shift pulsing between chopping veggies for 30 or 40 hot lunches and washing piles of big pots, pans and spoons. After all the cooking, I return to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/heart-stretches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heart Stretches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}