{"id":3658,"date":"2015-10-13T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2019-08-30T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:42:23","slug":"the-traveller-is-the-journey-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2015\/10\/13\/the-traveller-is-the-journey-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traveller is the Journey &#8211; Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Categories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Journal<\/strong> &#8211; relating and describing the experiences of my own day to day life\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Out-of-the-darkness<\/strong> &#8211; specifically my efforts and experiences in recovery<\/li>\n<li><strong>Self-improvement<\/strong> &#8211; specifically my efforts and experiences in remaking and improving myself<\/li>\n<li><strong>Searching<\/strong> &#8211; specifically my thoughts and responses to deciding and reconsidering direction<\/li>\n<li><strong>Observations<\/strong> &#8211; specifically my reflection upon experiences in my life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Story\u00a0<\/b>&#8211; my fiction writing<\/li>\n<li><strong>Essay<\/strong> &#8211; my non-fiction writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tags<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Buddhism\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiction<\/strong> &#8211; which I have written<\/li>\n<li><b>Journey\u00a0<\/b>&#8211; which I am taking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Judaism<\/strong> &#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meditation<\/strong> &#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Philosophy<\/strong> &#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Programming, Python\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<li><strong>Self-improvement<\/strong> &#8211; which I have been seeking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Variation upon a theme<\/strong> &#8211; that I have already written about<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yoga<\/strong> &#8211; which I have been exploring<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Categories Journal &#8211; relating and describing the experiences of my own day to day life Out-of-the-darkness &#8211; specifically my efforts and experiences in recovery Self-improvement &#8211; specifically my efforts and experiences in remaking and improving myself Searching &#8211; specifically my thoughts and responses to deciding and reconsidering direction Observations &#8211; specifically my reflection upon experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,162,106],"tags":[],"metadata":[316],"class_list":["post-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-content-categories","category-the-traveller-is-the-journey","metadata-page-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4019,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2014\/09\/08\/reading-hegel-on-sense-certainty\/","url_meta":{"origin":3658,"position":0},"title":"Reading Hegel on &#8220;Sense-Certainty&#8221;","author":"Pala","date":"September 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: In September 2014, Shai publishes his fifth\u00a0blog\u00a0entitled \u201cM-III\u201d (short for Meantime-III) and subtitled \u201cThe Traveller is the Journey\u201d (not to be confused with a later blog entitled \u201cThe Traveller is the Journey\u201d, published in 2015). 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