{"id":20721,"date":"2026-10-20T05:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:37:02","slug":"staring-into-the-eyes-of-my-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/staring-into-the-eyes-of-my-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"the countless moments of being alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesmallbow.com\/p\/interview-with-a-56-year-old-sober-person-eric-zimmer?utm_source=www.thesmallbow.com&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=interview-with-a-56-year-old-sober-person-eric-zimmer&amp;_bhlid=917692a2bd60fd36e6b78062c9179e5c92e39fcb&amp;jwt_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJzY3JpYmVyX2lkIjoiNGJjNDEwNzgtMDJhMC00ZTMzLWJhZTYtODQyM2ZkYWMxYTBiIiwicHVibGljYXRpb25faWQiOiIzNGQ2M2I2My0wYjcwLTQ5NmItODY5Mi0wMmFlYTI3Yzk3M2UiLCJhY2Nlc3NfdHlwZSI6InJlYWQtb25seSIsImV4cCI6MTc5MjY2NzcyMywiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hcHAuYmVlaGlpdi5jb20iLCJpYXQiOjE3OTI0OTQ5MjN9.W8JWliT21NqXuMHD1rC11MFxEfRE9Lw2yLOkEhjMG8U\">interview with a sober person<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em><strong>What are some memorable sober moments?<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Publishing my first book earlier this year. The birth of my son. An ecstatic enlightenment experience I had on a silent retreat.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">But even better than the particularly memorable moments are the truly countless moments of being alive, being present. The sound of an E chord on the guitar, the smattering of clouds across the sunrise. A quiet morning on a park bench. Staring into the eyes of my dogs.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from interview with a sober person: What are some memorable sober moments? Publishing my first book earlier this year. The birth of my son. An ecstatic enlightenment experience I had on a silent retreat. But even better than the particularly memorable moments are the truly countless moments of being alive, being present. The sound of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20724,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20721\/revisions\/20724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}