{"id":102,"date":"2026-02-04T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/?p=102"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:38:10","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much of what most of us do revolves around action. A calvinist ideal of pushing and pushing until exhaustion. Much of what the greater world has done-what the universe has done-revolves around inaction. The moon pushes and pulls the tide in and out. The sun heats the earth. Animals observe. Grass grows only when it&#8217;s time. We confuse, to our detriment, effort with ends. If we simply experienced-merely listened and watched-we would come to the point where we understood how little action need be taken to accomplish things. How much we can let go. How unbelievably terrifying that is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what most of us do revolves around action. A calvinist ideal of pushing and pushing until exhaustion. Much of what the greater world has done-what the universe has done-revolves around inaction. The moon pushes and pulls the tide in and out. The sun heats the earth. Animals observe. Grass grows only when it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}