{"id":7542,"date":"2019-11-26T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:22:08","slug":"considering-gratitude-as-a-soapbox-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/considering-gratitude-as-a-soapbox-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Gratitude as a Soapbox Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WB1UD2GpBcc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reverie: A Thank You Note<\/p>\n<p>Last night I had<\/p>\n<p>the strangest dream.<\/p>\n<p>I was speeding downhill<\/p>\n<p>toward Death,<\/p>\n<p>but the velocity of my gratitude<\/p>\n<p>shoots by next to me<\/p>\n<p>in some goofy<\/p>\n<p>soapbox derby racer.<\/p>\n<p>I see my crazy<\/p>\n<p>grinning self there<\/p>\n<p>in utter wonder<\/p>\n<p>at this chain of events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How the hell&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I see him say without sound,<\/p>\n<p>Face-to-face<\/p>\n<p>with the grace<\/p>\n<p>of gratitude,<\/p>\n<p>Neck-and-neck,<\/p>\n<p>cheating Death.<\/p>\n<p>I mouth back to him<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we both wobble<\/p>\n<p>toward<\/p>\n<p>our rendezvous<\/p>\n<p>with oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7543\" src=\"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799-160x240.png 160w, https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/pablo-2019-11-26T065829.799.png 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px #ffffff none;\" src=\"https:\/\/record.reverb.chat\/embed\/NlSpJG4PJzq7nVyZJ4B2\" name=\"myiFrame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180px\" frameborder=\"1\" marginwidth=\"0px\" marginheight=\"0px\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverie: A Thank You Note Last night I had the strangest dream. I was speeding downhill toward Death, but the velocity of my gratitude shoots by next to me in some goofy soapbox derby racer. I see my crazy grinning self there in utter wonder at this chain of events. &#8220;How the hell&#8230;&#8221; I see<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/considering-gratitude-as-a-soapbox-derby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tellio","post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-clmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7544,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}