{"id":184,"date":"2005-03-09T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T01:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-03-09T06:27:02","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T01:27:02","slug":"i-was-just-thinking-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2005\/03\/09\/i-was-just-thinking-that.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Was Just Thinking That&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table WIDTH=\"800\">\n<tr VALIGN=\"TOP\">\n<td>\n<font FACE=\"VERDANA,ARIAL,HELVETICA\" SIZE=\"3\"><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" WIDTH=\"300\">\n<tr VALIGN=\"TOP\">\n<td WIDTH=\"300\" align=\"left\">\n<font SIZE=\"2\" FACE=\"Arial, Helvetica\"><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever find yourself saying &#8220;I was just thinking that&#8221; before articulating a thought on what you say you were just thinking about? <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I say, mumbling to myself, &#8220;I was wondering  about that&#8221; before producing a coherent thought or idea about &#8220;that.&#8221; A dusting of acknowledgement that something remarkable just passed by.<\/p>\n<p>The other day there was no breeze where I normally felt it  through the window. A situation not worth getting up to check on, but I leaned back and saw that the window was closed and in a miniscule moment of astonishment I whispered &#8220;I was wondering why there was no breeze.&#8221; But that thought had never formed. I never wondered that.<\/p>\n<p>The circle of thought from instinct to action to conclusion taking place in 1 second, the conclusion fortifying that original but unarticulated observation which might never be remembered except that I happened to lean back and see that the window was shut.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these instincts float past uncomplemented, and they disappear.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><\/font>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever find yourself saying &#8220;I was just thinking that&#8221; before articulating a thought on what you say you were just thinking about? Sometimes I say, mumbling to myself, &#8220;I was wondering about that&#8221; before producing a coherent thought or idea about &#8220;that.&#8221; A dusting of acknowledgement that something remarkable just passed by. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-2Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}