{"id":4770,"date":"2015-06-17T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:00:20","slug":"trying-to-love-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4770","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Love Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygood.org\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Good<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<blockquote><p>Love After Love<\/p>\n<p>The time will come<br \/>\nwhen, with elation<br \/>\nyou will greet yourself arriving<br \/>\nat your own door, in your own mirror<br \/>\nand each will smile at the other&#8217;s welcome,<\/p>\n<p>and say, sit here. Eat.<br \/>\nYou will love again the stranger who was your self.<br \/>\nGive wine. Give bread. Give back your heart<br \/>\nto itself, to the stranger who has loved you<\/p>\n<p>all your life, whom you ignored<br \/>\nfor another, who knows you by heart.<br \/>\nTake down the love letters from the bookshelf,<\/p>\n<p>the photographs, the desperate notes,<br \/>\npeel your own image from the mirror.<br \/>\nSit. Feast on your life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"poet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/derek-walcott\/poems\/\">Derek Walcott<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"poet\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know this poem from listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwhyte.com\/\">David Whyte<\/a> read it on one of the many CD&#8217;s I have by him. \u00a0I know the second quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharonsalzberg.com\/\">Sharon Salzberg&#8217;s <\/a>CD on Lovingkindness.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Good\u00a0also quoted Buddha:\u00a0<b>You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came on the Daily Good: Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other&#8217;s welcome, and say, sit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-present-day","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}