{"id":280,"date":"2020-09-30T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:51:18","slug":"reflecting-on-the-past-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the past six months&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_20200930_151720593-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having just returned to work after a long-ish break, I found it really interesting to look at the magnetic white board on the wall of my home practice room for the first time in three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had found the white board outside someone&#8217;s house near the beginning of lockdown in April 2020 and, after sanitizing it thoroughly, I started writing on it the random bits of stimulating things that I would read or hear (usually on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenpercent.com\/podcast\">Ten Percent Happier podcast<\/a>) during the long days of working at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see, some of the statements have question marks punctuating them, and these statements have served as reflective prompts for months now; the statements without any punctuation tend to serve as aspirational prompts, reminding me of how I would like to experience the world during these incredibly surreal times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m loth to erase the board and start again, so I think I might stick a piece of flipchart paper on top, and start jotting down newer random bits of stimulating stuff that I read or hear over the next six months&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just returned to work after a long-ish break, I found it really interesting to look at the magnetic white board on the wall of my home practice room for the first time in three weeks. I had found the white board outside someone&#8217;s house near the beginning of lockdown in April 2020 and, after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/?p=280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reflecting on the past six months&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathaliegriffin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}