{"id":68,"date":"2008-02-06T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-02-04T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:01:20","slug":"the-art-of-zen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"The art of Zen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I have been spending some time and effort in cleaning out our house I don&#8217;t simply mean shifting around the mess from one room to another, we are throwing things out.\u00c2\u00a0 We sell what we can and we are donating the rest, it is very much like one of those shows you see on the TLC or something.\u00c2\u00a0 I got rid of 1\/3 of my library and will probably get rid of more in the future.\u00c2\u00a0 We got rid of all of the CD&#8217;s that we hadn&#8217;t listened to or ripped to the computer already, that was actually about 200 CD&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 We still have much more to go but we believe it will be best to simplify our life in many ways.\u00c2\u00a0 I am even contemplating getting rid of my cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>I have been reading a\u00c2\u00a0 blog lately called <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/\">Zenhabits <\/a>which has helped a great deal in finding ways to simplify my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t suggest it enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather and I have been spending some time and effort in cleaning out our house I don&#8217;t simply mean shifting around the mess from one room to another, we are throwing things out.\u00c2\u00a0 We sell what we can and we are donating the rest, it is very much like one of those shows you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.fishandchipsstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}