{"id":14573,"date":"2012-12-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2012-12-19T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:00:22","slug":"existential-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/existential-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16187\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/henri.jpg\" alt=\"henri nowen\" width=\"550\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/henri.jpg 550w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/henri-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>&#8220;[My friend and I] spoke about the existential loneliness we are both experiencing at this time in our lives. This loneliness stems not from a lack of friends, problems with spouse or children, or absence of professional recognition. Neither of us has any major complaints in these areas. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em>Still&#8230;the question &#8216;What am I doing, and for what reason?&#8217; lurks underneath all of our good feelings about friends, family and work&#8230; Without a deep-rooted sense of belonging, all of life can easily become cold, distant and painfully repetitive.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211;\u00a0Henri Nowen,\u00a0&#8220;The Road To Daybreak&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[My friend and I] spoke about the existential loneliness we are both experiencing at this time in our lives. This loneliness stems not from a lack of friends, problems with spouse or children, or absence of professional recognition. Neither of us has any major complaints in these areas. Still&#8230;the question &#8216;What am I doing, and for what reason?&#8217; lurks underneath<\/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":[1645,1646],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-heni-nowen","tag-lonliness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","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=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16217,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions\/16217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}