{"id":214,"date":"2013-09-10T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:58:33","slug":"elderberry-trance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/elderberry-trance\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderberry Trance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked a considerable amount of elderberries a couple of days ago. The repetitive action of stripping the berries from the stalks would have been good exercise in my piano-plating days; it&#8217;s a twiddly, fiddly process, staining the fingers a pale black. Not grey. After a while, you don&#8217;t really need to look at what you&#8217;re doing. Sitting at the table in the garden I found myself gazing at the leaves of a birch tree, backlit by the gathering sunset, and had the vague notion that I didn&#8217;t know who I was, or when&#8230;I wondered idly if this might be some kind of trance, induced by the elderberries, always something of a mysterious fruit&#8230;and the fact that people have performed this simple action for generations&#8230;.Practitioners of yoga believe that the body holds a memory of actions repeated, hence the power in all that bending and stretching and mindful breathing. Maybe twiddling the elderberries works in the same way&#8230;the thought made me notice my own breathing, then, and I realised the sun had almost set and it was COLD!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adelenozedar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130910-145829.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130910-145829.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adelenozedar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130910-145829.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked a considerable amount of elderberries a couple of days ago. The repetitive action of stripping the berries from the stalks would have been good exercise in my piano-plating days; it&#8217;s a twiddly, fiddly process, staining the fingers a pale black. Not grey. After a while, you don&#8217;t really need to look at what you&#8217;re [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-foraging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3oFln-3s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adelenozedar.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}