{"id":145,"date":"2018-01-03T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=145"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:43:27","slug":"new-years-resolution-being-more-present-with-the-ones-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/03\/new-years-resolution-being-more-present-with-the-ones-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s resolution: Being more present with the ones I love"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw010318-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw010318-2-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Being more present with the ones I love\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw010318-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw010318-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being more present with the ones I love<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What a laudable goal! One path is to figure out what&#8217;s getting in the way of presence: work, social media, conflict avoidance, fear of intimacy, or just a habit of not being present. It&#8217;s also worthwhile just asking the ones you love what&#8217;s on their minds, or complimenting them. Sometimes, for instance, I take my friend the 3rd Floor for granted, but I should be more present. Floor, I love the way you withstand thousands of footsteps daily without complaint. Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a good book about mindfulness and love:\u00a0Teachings on Love. (O&#8217;Neill Library, Call number:\u00a0BQ4360 .N4713 1998)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a laudable goal! One path is to figure out what&#8217;s getting in the way of presence: work, social media, conflict avoidance, fear of intimacy, or just a habit of not being present. It&#8217;s also worthwhile just asking the ones you love what&#8217;s on their minds, or complimenting them. Sometimes, for instance, I take my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/03\/new-years-resolution-being-more-present-with-the-ones-i-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year&#8217;s resolution: Being more present with the ones I love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-career","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}