{"id":587,"date":"2004-09-17T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/17\/eating-in-silence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:50","slug":"eating-in-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/17\/eating-in-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating In Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When we eat, far too often it is with a carelessness borne of necessity. There is information to convey to our fellow diners, business to be attended to, or a slipstream of urgent thoughts in our heads. But, in all the chatter, it is easy to overlook the physical and spiritual nourishment that food provides, and the close relationship we, as humans, share with the earth. Silent, meditative meals allow you to enjoy the pleasure of food mindfully and to strongly experience the joys of being with friends and family in a quiet, reflective way. When you eat without speaking, it&#8217;s an opportunity to focus on the origins, sight, scent, and flavor of each food, as well as the effect on your body. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about mindful eating at <a title=\"DailyOM - Eating In Silence\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyom.com\/articles\/2004\/248.html\">DailyOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we eat, far too often it is with a carelessness borne of necessity. There is information to convey to our fellow diners, business to be attended to, or a slipstream of urgent thoughts in our heads. But, in all the chatter, it is easy to overlook the physical and spiritual nourishment that food provides, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12823,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/12823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}