{"id":221,"date":"2018-07-26T06:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:46:57","slug":"sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What is sacred?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sacred means <em>set apart<\/em>. As a culture we have ideas of things which should be set apart, should be sacred. Sex. Marriage. Death. And maybe these are good and right; maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, <em>what is sacred?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Sacred is what <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> setting apart, what <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> cordoning off from the craziness of life in order to deeply experience, and today that is my coffee. I&#8217;ve purchased Thai beans from the Royal Project and ground them in my little grinder\u00a0and when I dished the beans into the grinder I could smell their rich earthiness and I poured hot water in a small backpacking coffee maker and served myself this coffee in a mug that&#8217;s handmade by a local artist, a mug that was a gift from Amp for our first Christmas in Chiang Mai,\u00a0 and when they were grinding I was talking with Amp, and when I drink the coffee I sip slowly and look at the mountains &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>And this is sacred.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-228\" src=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_5288-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_5288-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_5288-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_5288-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_5288-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is sacred? Sacred means set apart. As a culture we have ideas of things which should be set apart, should be sacred. Sex. Marriage. Death. And maybe these are good and right; maybe not. But this morning, what is sacred? My coffee. Sacred is what I&#8217;m setting apart, what I&#8217;m cordoning off from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/?p=221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sacred&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyvia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}