{"id":1502,"date":"2012-05-24T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2012-05-24T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T16:34:38","slug":"human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/human\/","title":{"rendered":"Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kathleen Reeves<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0was\u00a0something\u00a0other\u00a0than\u00a0fear of death<br \/>\nor love of the world, my friends, our plans\u2014<br \/>\nhaving waited so long to enter\u00a0it<br \/>\nI wanted to keep my body.<br \/>\nEven when so many wore\u00a0it\u00a0down<br \/>\nand even when\u00a0it\u00a0tormented me<br \/>\nduring my long death, I thought of\u00a0it<br \/>\nas a gift because I had come<br \/>\nto love\u00a0it\u00a0unconditionally.<br \/>\nLove: the word isn&#8217;t right.<br \/>\nWords fail me, they all fail me,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m disappointed\u00a0in\u00a0them now.<br \/>\nI\u00a0was\u00a0all words in the beginning<br \/>\nbut my heart broke when I came into skin.<br \/>\nThis is how\u00a0it\u00a0happened:<br \/>\nI had a heart,\u00a0it\u00a0broke<br \/>\nin the moment of having\u00a0it,<br \/>\nI lived out life that way, heartbroken,<br \/>\non earth, human.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on May 20, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kathleen Reeves It\u00a0was\u00a0something\u00a0other\u00a0than\u00a0fear of death or love of the world, my friends, our plans\u2014 having waited so long to enter\u00a0it I wanted to keep my body. Even when so many wore\u00a0it\u00a0down and even when\u00a0it\u00a0tormented me during my long death, I thought of\u00a0it as a gift because I had come to love\u00a0it\u00a0unconditionally. Love: the word [&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\/1502"}],"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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}