{"id":4053,"date":"2020-04-27T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T22:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2020-05-09T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T18:20:02","slug":"journal-walking-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/27\/journal-walking-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking For the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nina Joss<\/em><\/p>\n

March 25<\/em><\/p>\n

To be living in a time
\nwhere emails are signed off with \u201cstay safe & healthy,\u201d
\nwhere the first response to \u201chow are you?\u201d
\nis: \u201chome, safe with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where going outside is a privilege that my lord we took for granted.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t hugged my friends in weeks.
\nWell I did, once, Grace, last week
\nand felt guilty the whole drive home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a constant distance. In the words of a dear friend\u2014\u201cWe are not made for a virtual reality. We are made for a physical one.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now the majority of my day is spent looking at a screen.
\nBut we\u2019ve been talking. And reading. And playing music. And biking. And baking.
\nWe are finding the joy in things we didn\u2019t before.
\nWe are relying on each other, morally obligated to care for the rest. Doing the most we can to save them.
\nYet so far. And realizing that, more than anything, we need each other.<\/p>\n

I went for a run yesterday, and although there was a physical avoidance between myself and the other humans I saw, I felt a spiritual connection, stronger than normal.
\nWe waved hello. Thank you’s to a postman.
\nI shared the street with a teenage boy, leaving his house for a run and an old man doing aerobic exercises with his arms in the air.
\nAnd we were connected, because we are all in the same boat here.
\nI don\u2019t know the waters we are passing through, but we are a team.<\/p>\n

And so here we are, walking for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nina Joss March 25 To be living in a time where emails are signed off with \u201cstay safe & healthy,\u201d where the first response to \u201chow are you?\u201d is: \u201chome, safe with my family.\u201d Where going outside is a privilege that my lord we took for granted. I haven\u2019t hugged my friends in weeks. Read more about Walking For the First Time<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4705,"featured_media":3817,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plymouth-mi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Journal.svg_.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7o53H-13n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}