{"id":1343,"date":"2015-02-22T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2015-02-22T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:23:26","slug":"sunday-motivation-habits-routines-and-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/22\/sunday-motivation-habits-routines-and-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Motivation: Habits, Routines, and Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1343'] = [\n{id: 1344, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/Mary-Oliver-copy.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/Mary-Oliver-copy.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/22\/sunday-motivation-habits-routines-and-rituals\/mary-oliver-copy\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Mary Oliver<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/22\/sunday-motivation-habits-routines-and-rituals\/mary-oliver-copy\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_1344\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1343\" data-imgid=\"1344\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/Mary-Oliver-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1344\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1344\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/Mary-Oliver-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy poetryfoundation.org\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy poetryfoundation.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We often think of habits as behaviors we need to change or re-route or develop. Habit formation can feel accidental; habit change can feel obligatory. Today&#8217;s Sunday Motivation is about habits as rituals, as opportunities for vitality and full expression of lives well lived. Take a look and a listen with <a title=\"Brain Pickings on Mary Oliver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/02\/20\/mary-oliver-long-life-habit\/?mc_cid=ec09e7202b&amp;mc_eid=a1948f1469\" target=\"_blank\">Brain Pickings&#8217; latest digest<\/a> on the magnificent poet Mary Oliver, and her approach to habit as life force, rather than routine and mindless obligation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think of habits as behaviors we need to change or re-route or develop. Habit formation can feel accidental; habit change can feel obligatory. Today&#8217;s Sunday Motivation is about <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/22\/sunday-motivation-habits-routines-and-rituals\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Sunday Motivation: Habits, Routines, and Rituals<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4549,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68818],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}