Last night:<\/p>\n
I got a new tattoo<\/a>. It’s one that I’ve been wanting<\/span> needing for a while now.<\/p>\n I’ll go ahead and answer the questions I always get!<\/p>\n 1) Shantih<\/em>. It’s Sanskrit.<\/p>\n First of all, it’s the final line in The Waste Land<\/em><\/a>, my second-favorite poem ever (yes, I want to have the first tattooed on me as well).<\/p>\n It really conveys more of a sense of inner peace or serenity, lack of conflict or turmoil with the outside world. The Upanishads<\/a> traditionally end with om shantih shantih shantih<\/em>, an invocation for peace and understanding. My favorite translation of that concept is ‘peace within, peace without, peace to the world.’<\/p>\n This complements another tattoo<\/a>. I’ve always told people that’s how many people I’m responsible for, but that’s not what it means to me. It conveys a sense of wholeness, of being intact and complete as an individual.<\/p>\n 2) YEAH, it hurt a lot. It’s a painful spot. I had to just breathe for a while. It was awesome. I’m pretty sure nothing will ever be as painful as the insides of my wrists, though, so that’s kind of the standard for everything.<\/p>\n 3) I have a thing for words.<\/p>\n 4) My mom will find out tomorrow. She’ll be thrilled, as always.<\/p>\n 5) Jon Sweet at Uptown Tattoo<\/a>. He also designed my Minneapolis tattoo<\/a>. Go see him.<\/p>\n OK, I am supersuper busy today so I must run. I will be back soon with more excitingness!<\/p>\n Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night: I got a new tattoo. It’s one that I’ve been wanting needing for a while now. I’ll go ahead and answer the questions I always get! 1) Shantih. It’s Sanskrit. First of all, it’s the final line in The Waste Land, my second-favorite poem ever (yes, I want to have the first tattooed …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tattoos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-4L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}