{"id":1318,"date":"2012-04-05T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-04-05T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:38:02","slug":"an-impromptu-passover-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/an-impromptu-passover-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impromptu Passover Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Chess<\/p>\n<p>Called into<br \/>\nthe arms of history, arms<br \/>\nthat embrace, arms that steady, arms<br \/>\nthat secure and crush, called at night, called by<br \/>\na reed but they were uncertain what the reed<br \/>\nwas calling them to, called by blood and bone<br \/>\nof a lamb, but they were unsure of what the stain<br \/>\nof blood and weight of bone were calling them to.<br \/>\nThe sea of history parted once for them to pass through.<br \/>\nThe story of freedom cleared a path for them<br \/>\nand they walked it, they shuffled, limped, dragged<br \/>\nor skipped through it. \u00a0Once they were invited<br \/>\nbut they hesitated, some hesitated,<br \/>\nlike you, my son, invited now<br \/>\nto come into the arms of your history, the long<br \/>\npage of which will be recited tonight, here<br \/>\non the far shore of the sea of their crossing<br \/>\ninto history, here where I invite you to be embraced<br \/>\nby the story, to be strengthened by it, to sing it<br \/>\nwith your blood and strong bone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on April 1, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard Chess Called into the arms of history, arms that embrace, arms that steady, arms that secure and crush, called at night, called by a reed but they were uncertain what the reed was calling them to, called by blood and bone of a lamb, but they were unsure of what the stain of [&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\/1318"}],"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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}