{"id":22476,"date":"2013-09-30T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22476"},"modified":"2013-09-30T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T12:12:23","slug":"dictionary-of-obscure-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22476","title":{"rendered":"dictionary of obscure sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/post\/62661406328\/liberosis\">dictionaryofobscuresorrows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>liberosis<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>n.<\/em>\u00a0the desire to care less about things\u2014to loosen your grip on your life before you reach the end zone, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you\u2014rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick fleeting interventions, bouncing freely in the hands of trusted friends, always in play.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/post\/55262926728\/midsummer\">midsummer<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><em>n.<\/em>\u00a0a feast celebrated on the day of your 26th birthday, which marks the point at which your youth finally expires as a valid excuse\u2014when you must begin harvesting your crops, even if\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0barely\u00a0taken root\u2014and the point at which\u00a0the days will begin to feel shorter as they pass,\u00a0until even the pollen in the air reminds you of the coming snow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com\/post\/54040771701\/nighthawk\">nighthawk<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><em>n<\/em>. a recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night\u2014an overdue task,\u00a0a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future\u2014that circles high overhead during the day, that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep, that you can successfully ignore for weeks, only to feel its presence hovering outside the window, waiting for you to finish your coffee, passing the time by quietly building a nest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dictionaryofobscuresorrows: liberosis n.\u00a0the desire to care less about things\u2014to loosen your grip on your life before you reach the end zone, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you\u2014rather to hold your life loosely and playfully, like a volleyball, keeping it in the air, with only quick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=22476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">dictionary of obscure sorrows<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22478,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22476\/revisions\/22478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}