{"id":671,"date":"2015-09-10T13:48:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2015-09-10T13:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:48:29","slug":"a-little-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"A little community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ball-moss-in-my-hand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"ball moss in my hand\" src=\"http:\/\/old.maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ball-moss-in-my-hand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ball-moss-in-my-hand.jpg 953w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ball-moss-in-my-hand-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maryology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ball-moss-in-my-hand-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ball moss isn&#8217;t really moss. It is an air plant that lives off of humidity and dust, water and soil &#8211; the same stuff of which I am made. These botanical spheres seem self-sufficient, \u00a0they don&#8217;t really need any other plants for their survival. Yet, they usually live in trees. Maybe they do it for the company. That little ball of thin leaves is really a community of plants holding tightly to each other, and also shooting out long-stemmed flowers to share themselves with the wider world. Island plants that are really not islands at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using a different lens lately to consider human nature. One view I&#8217;m seeing is the nature of our physical selves &#8211; humans are both corporal and corporate. We are separate bodies and connected communities &#8211; at the same time. You and I can&#8217;t be truly human without being both. Our nourishment comes not only from water and soil, but also from holding tightly together and sending our blossoms out to the wider world. It&#8217;s how we are made and what we are made for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball moss isn&#8217;t really moss. It is an air plant that lives off of humidity and dust, water and soil &#8211; the same stuff of which I am made. These botanical spheres seem self-sufficient, \u00a0they don&#8217;t really need any other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maryology.com\/?p=671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,58,12,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-community","category-metaphor","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maryology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}