{"id":2171,"date":"2020-04-28T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2020-06-26T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T17:09:30","slug":"thurman-life-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/thurman-life-goes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation: Life Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following meditation, &#8220;Life Goes On,&#8221; is from Thurman&#8217;s Meditations of the Heart.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;\\&quot;During these turbulent times we must remind ourselves repeatedly that life goes on. This we are apt to forget...[but let] us not be deceived. It is just as important as ever to attend to the little graces by which the dignity of our lives is maintained and sustained. Birds still sing; the stars continue to cast their gentle gleam over the desolation of the battle\ufb01elds, and the heart is still inspired by the kind word and the gracious deed.\\&quot;&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:769,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0}\">During these turbulent times we must remind ourselves repeatedly that life goes on. This we are apt to forget&#8230;[but let] us not be deceived. It is just as important as ever to attend to the little graces by which the dignity of our lives is maintained and sustained. Birds still sing; the stars continue to cast their gentle gleam over the desolation of the battle\ufb01elds, and the heart is still inspired by the kind word and the gracious deed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following meditation, &#8220;Life Goes On,&#8221; is from Thurman&#8217;s Meditations of the Heart.\u00a0 During these turbulent times we must remind ourselves repeatedly that life goes on. This we are apt to forget&#8230;[but let] us not be deceived. It is just as important as ever to attend to the little graces by which the dignity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6091,"featured_media":2213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}