{"id":1170,"date":"2012-01-30T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:55:54","slug":"illusion-in-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/illusion-in-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion in Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lenore Hildebrandt<\/p>\n<p>Lately, our tenses are neither<br \/>\npresent nor past, but impossibly<br \/>\nabsent as we try to take hold.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what is written, you say,<br \/>\nthe birds in the sky always<br \/>\nhustle for sustenance.<br \/>\nThe fish in the sea<br \/>\nworry themselves dull<br \/>\nover tomorrow&#8217;s catch.<\/p>\n<p>The rush is contagious\u2014<br \/>\nI had to omit the pauses between<br \/>\nbreathing in and breathing out.<br \/>\nIt is winter\u2014we don&#8217;t sleep\u2014<br \/>\nwe roam about the dark<br \/>\nin search of kernels.<\/p>\n<p>Today as the snow is receding<br \/>\nbrown grasses are laid out<br \/>\nto dry in the sun:<br \/>\nthe thin carpet of life<br \/>\na single line. I close my eyes<br \/>\n\u2014blue water, blue sky\u2014<\/p>\n<p>and launch myself deep<br \/>\nin the light-world.<br \/>\nYou come too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on January 29<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lenore Hildebrandt Lately, our tenses are neither present nor past, but impossibly absent as we try to take hold. Contrary to what is written, you say, the birds in the sky always hustle for sustenance. The fish in the sea worry themselves dull over tomorrow&#8217;s catch. The rush is contagious\u2014 I had to omit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}