{"id":2557,"date":"2021-04-26T20:33:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T04:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2021-04-27T07:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:42:16","slug":"levity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/levity\/","title":{"rendered":"Levity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2557\" class=\"elementor elementor-2557\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-016ef41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"016ef41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c7e363\" data-id=\"8c7e363\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91ca883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91ca883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Levity was a term that used to belong to the realm of physics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/levity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Levity<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was originally thought to be an opposing force to gravity. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and levity was thought to be a counter-force that gives lightness to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientific understanding has evolved since then, and today the term levity refers only to lightness in manner or speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we might have outgrown our thinking about levity in terms of a physical force opposing gravity, it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t forget how helpful it can be in bringing out our humanity when we\u2019re faced with the gravity of a situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just because something is serious, doesn\u2019t mean we have to take ourselves too seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the times where I have laughed the hardest were in the hardest times of my life. Those moments of levity were what reminded me of my own humanity and my connection to others. They sparked the connection, trust, perspective, and resilience needed to overcome those hard times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When faced with the gravity of a situation, levity can be just what\u2019s needed to remind us of our shared humanity and to corral the strength and trust in our social ties so we can persevere. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Levity was a term that used to belong to the realm of physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15,5,14,8,3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication","category-community","category-empathy","category-facilitation","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-problem-solving","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Levity.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}