{"id":774,"date":"2014-03-19T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-03-23T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:48:13","slug":"the-look-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"The Look of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Steering-the-Elephant16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-584\" alt=\"Steering the Elephant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Steering-the-Elephant16-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I do not know a whole lot about <a title=\"Cosmology: The Study of the Universe\" href=\"http:\/\/map.gsfc.nasa.gov\/universe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmology<\/a>, other than its focus is understanding the Universe. The purpose of this post is not about the Universe or more specifically, <a title=\"Inflation (cosmology)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inflation_%28cosmology%29\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmic Inflation<\/a> or <a title=\"New evidence from space supports Stanford physicist's theory of how universe began\" href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2014\/march\/physics-cosmic-inflation-031714.html\" target=\"_blank\">gravitational waves<\/a>. It is about <em>surprise, elation, and validation<\/em>. It is also about <em>passion<\/em> expressed by people who usually are thought of as being withdrawn, dry, and out of touch &#8212; inhabitants of the Ivory Tower.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"470\" height=\"264\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZlfIVEy_YOA?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"470\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZlfIVEy_YOA?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you watch with the sound turned off, you see two people unexpectedly hearing wonderful news, and how it hits them in waves. It looks some what like the Publisher&#8217;s Clearing House surprising a new millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us know the reactions of those in groups we identify with, and little about others. We think we are different and unique. We are not.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we look like when we are joyful. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not know a whole lot about Cosmology, other than its focus is understanding the Universe. The purpose of this post is not about the Universe or more specifically, Cosmic Inflation or gravitational waves. It is about surprise, elation, and validation. It is also about passion expressed by people who usually are thought of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steeringtheelephant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}