{"id":815,"date":"2009-08-21T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T07:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-08-21T23:53:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T07:53:59","slug":"grace-the-beach-boys-and-my-own-spiritual-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Grace, The Beach Boys &#8211; and my own spiritual evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, I never had a room of my own.   And oh my, how I longed for solitude and a place I could call my own.<\/p>\n<p>This song &#8211; &#8220;In My Room&#8221;, was the first time I had experienced the Source (aka God).  This experience of God (aka Grace) began my lifelong journey toward Consciousness (aka God).<\/p>\n<strong>No share or id values provided for youtube shortcode.<\/strong>\n<p>I was about 10 years old when &#8220;In My Room&#8221; sparked my Path.<\/p>\n<p>Following this experience of my Beloved (aka God), I was blessed to spend lots of time at the ocean &#8211; it was at the ocean that I experienced Grace again &#8211; but in a much more profound and deep way.  With the ocean waves and the star-filled sky, I came face-to-face with I Am (aka God).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shawnna.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/sea-night.jpg?resize=600%2C402\" alt=\"sea-night\" title=\"sea-night\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea-night.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shawnna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sea-night.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, I never had a room of my own. And oh my, how I longed for solitude and a place I could call my own. This song &#8211; &#8220;In My Room&#8221;, was the first time I had experienced the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=815\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}