{"id":14544,"date":"2012-11-14T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=14544"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:16:36","slug":"silence-and-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/silence-and-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Silence &amp; Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14545\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching.jpg\" alt=\"Sheen Preaching\" width=\"575\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching.jpg 575w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sheen-Preaching-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;there come moments, at night or when alone or in the silence of the country, where we cannot help but pass judgement on ourselves. But those whose consciences are no good avoid this by immersing themselves in externals. Hence the reluctance of such persons to be alone with themselves. They search for constant distractions, or something &#8216;to make one forget&#8217;, anything to keep the wound below the surface, and the memories from flying upward into consciousness&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Archbishop\u00a0Fulton Sheen,\u00a0&#8220;Guide to Contentment&#8221;,\u00a0Page 53<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;there come moments, at night or when alone or in the silence of the country, where we cannot help but pass judgement on ourselves. But those whose consciences are no good avoid this by immersing themselves in externals. Hence the reluctance of such persons to be alone with themselves. They search for constant distractions, or something &#8216;to make one forget&#8217;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1636,70,1637,1205,1635],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-distraction","tag-fulton-sheen","tag-honesty","tag-silence","tag-solitude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15430,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions\/15430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}