{"id":224,"date":"2023-01-18T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=224"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:46:06","slug":"armored-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Armored Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was on kitchen crew for a retreat last weekend (<em>Zero Hour Ministries, great group and mission)<\/em> and had a lengthy conversation one evening with a fellow OCD-sufferer. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this post<\/a> for my explanation\/poem on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.) The conversation was so very enjoyable, marked by that difficult-to-put-into-words feeling when someone &#8220;gets it,&#8221; <strong>truly<\/strong> gets what you are trying to say in a way that few other people can. Finishing sentences with <strong>exactly<\/strong> what you were going to say, when usually at that point you&#8217;d just be getting a somewhat quizzical look haha. Very meaningful.<br><br>It inspired me to post another poem about OCD &#8212; one of my most frequent poem topics, as right-brain and integrative-brain activities are really helpful to combat the brain lock of OCD.<br><br>Happy new year!<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/poem-ARMORED-SAINT-1.png?resize=497%2C347&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-225\" width=\"497\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/poem-ARMORED-SAINT-1.png?w=347&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/poem-ARMORED-SAINT-1.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on kitchen crew for a retreat last weekend (Zero Hour Ministries, great group and mission) and had a lengthy conversation one evening with a fellow OCD-sufferer. (See this post for my explanation\/poem on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.) The conversation was so very enjoyable, marked by that difficult-to-put-into-words feeling when someone &#8220;gets it,&#8221; truly gets what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}