{"id":1628,"date":"2012-07-08T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2012-07-08T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T21:40:09","slug":"a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Kathryn Starbuck<\/p>\n<p>Who is that creature<\/p><\/div>\n<div>and who does he want?<\/div>\n<div>Me, I trust. I do not<\/div>\n<div>attempt to call out his<\/div>\n<div>name for fear he will<\/div>\n<div>tread on me. What do<\/div>\n<div>you believe, he asks.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>That we all want to be<\/div>\n<div>alone, I reply, except when<\/div>\n<div>we do not; that the world<\/div>\n<div>was open to my sorrow<\/div>\n<div>and ate most of it; that<\/div>\n<div>today is a gift and I am<\/div>\n<div>ready to receive you.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 1, 2012\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kathryn Starbuck Who is that creature and who does he want? Me, I trust. I do not attempt to call out his name for fear he will tread on me. What do you believe, he asks. &nbsp; That we all want to be alone, I reply, except when we do not; that the world [&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\/1628"}],"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=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}