{"id":30732,"date":"2012-02-08T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mindful_eating_as_food_for_thought\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:00:50","slug":"mindful_eating_as_food_for_thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30732","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) Mindful Eating as Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try this: place a forkful of food in your mouth. It doesn\u2019t matter what the food is, but make it something you love \u201d\u201d let\u2019s say it\u2019s that first nibble from three hot, fragrant, perfectly cooked ravioli.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the hard part. Put the fork down. This could be a lot more challenging than you imagine, because that first bite was very good and another immediately beckons. You\u2019re hungry&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The concept has roots in Buddhist teachings. Just as there are forms of meditation that involve sitting, breathing, standing and walking, many Buddhist teachers encourage their students to meditate with food, expanding consciousness by paying close attention to the sensation and purpose of each morsel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/08\/dining\/mindful-eating-as-food-for-thought.html?\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try this: place a forkful of food in your mouth. It doesn\u2019t matter what the food is, but make it something you love \u201d\u201d let\u2019s say it\u2019s that first nibble from three hot, fragrant, perfectly cooked ravioli. Now comes the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30732\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,430,100,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-buddhism","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}