{"id":1632,"date":"2012-07-08T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2012-07-08T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T21:43:27","slug":"draw-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/draw-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Draw Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Scott Cairns<\/p>\n<div>For near is where you\u2019ll meet what you have wandered<\/div>\n<div>far to find. And near is where you\u2019ll very likely see<\/div>\n<div>how far the near obtains. In the dark\u00a0<em>katholikon<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><\/em>the lighted candles lent their gold to give the eye<\/div>\n<div>a more than common sense of what lay flickering<\/div>\n<div>just beyond the ken, and lent the mind a likely<\/div>\n<div>swoon just shy of apprehension. It was then<\/div>\n<div>that time\u2019s neat artifice fell in and made for us<\/div>\n<div>a figure for when time would slip free altogether.<\/div>\n<div>I have no sense of what this means to you, so little<\/div>\n<div>sense of what to make of it myself, save one lit glimpse<\/div>\n<div>of how we live and move, a more expansive sense in Whom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on July 8, 2012<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Scott Cairns For near is where you\u2019ll meet what you have wandered far to find. And near is where you\u2019ll very likely see how far the near obtains. In the dark\u00a0katholikon the lighted candles lent their gold to give the eye a more than common sense of what lay flickering just beyond the ken, [&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\/1632"}],"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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}