{"id":744,"date":"2009-01-26T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-adoration\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:51:56","slug":"word-of-the-day-adoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-adoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Adoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/365-Tao-Meditations-Ming-dao-Deng\/dp\/0062502239\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1233029226&amp;sr=8-1\">book<\/a> talks about adoration in terms of imagery and icons in religion. The author says &#8220;external worship is merely a means to point within the true source of salvation.&#8221; When I saw this word and read the associated piece I immediately got an image of sitting at the sewing machine ripping out a bit of stitching and then sewing it again. For me, stitching is a meditative process that allows my mind to swirl around touching on parts of my life that need attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book talks about adoration in terms of imagery and icons in religion. The author says &#8220;external worship is merely a means to point within the true source of salvation.&#8221; When I saw this word and read the associated piece I immediately got an image of sitting at the sewing machine ripping out a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/word-of-the-day-adoration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Adoration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[311,347],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-creativity","tag-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}