<div class="multiwho">by <a href="https://sites.smith.edu/religious-spiritual-life/author/mcantwelsmith-edu/" title="Posts by Matilda Cantwell" class="author url fn" rel="author">Matilda Cantwell</a></div><div class="multiwho">by <a href="https://sites.smith.edu/religious-spiritual-life/author/mcantwelsmith-edu/" title="Posts by Matilda Cantwell" class="author url fn" rel="author">Matilda Cantwell</a></div>{"id":214,"date":"2012-12-18T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smithinterfaithmatters.wordpress.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:12:19","slug":"a-waiting-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/2012\/12\/18\/a-waiting-person\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA waiting person is a patient person. The word &#8216;patience&#8217; means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us\u2026 The moment is empty. But patient people dare to stay where they are. Patient living means to live actively in the present and wait there. Waiting, then, is not passive. It involves nurturing the moment, as a mother nurtures the child that is growing in her womb.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Henry Nouwen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Henry Nouwen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/religious-spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}