{"id":786,"date":"2026-10-07T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/?p=786"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:38:03","slug":"descend-into-tenderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"descend into tenderness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome, dear friend,<br>back to the lowland<br>where we harvest joy and till our grief<br>where elation is paired with bitter remembrance<br>that comes without respite and grants no relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are destined under the harsh sun <br>of aporia to dwell; certitude <br>is bound to evade us for nude <br>of it we were born, and so shall depart <br>while the art that we live is the practice to be <br>contentedly contradictory:<br>Sturdy body down here, yet one of that kind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who comes from the highland <br>naked soul, tender mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(For my friend Grahame on his return from Traverse 2 of the &#8220;Rim of Africa&#8221;-hike, 7 October 2026. I completed this traverse in 2023 on this very day &#8211; a day of elation for my fellow hikers and me; a day of horror for humankind as we would later learn. And thus a day to be remembered with a heavy and a light heart since.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome, dear friend,back to the lowlandwhere we harvest joy and till our griefwhere elation is paired with bitter remembrancethat comes without respite and grants no relief. We are destined under the harsh sun of aporia to dwell; certitude is bound to evade us for nude of it we were born, and so shall depart while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcmeister.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}