{"id":1720,"date":"2012-08-23T19:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-08-23T19:59:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:59:54","slug":"her-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/her-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Her House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by Constance Urdang<\/p>\n<p>If I am in the house<\/p><\/div>\n<div>beams posts planks siding slate<\/div>\n<div>protect us<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wall<\/div>\n<div>guard us against the night-terrors<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Floor shore us up above the void below<\/div>\n<div>cover us roof<\/div>\n<div>enclose us from the void above<\/div>\n<div>door keep out the angry stranger<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Hearth cherish the fire<\/div>\n<div>windows be beacons<\/div>\n<div>breathe out my warm air chimney<\/div>\n<div>while I am in the house<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>In this room<\/div>\n<div>my eyes be twelve-paned windows<\/div>\n<div>clock pump my blood<\/div>\n<div>cover my nakedness, rug<\/div>\n<div>curtains be eyelids<\/div>\n<div>sofa, I rest on your strong thighs<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Where is the soul\u2019s seat?<\/div>\n<div>Doctors have cut up frogs and not found love.<\/div>\n<div>Is this my reason?<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>I in myself<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on August 18, 2012<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Constance Urdang If I am in the house beams posts planks siding slate protect us \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wall guard us against the night-terrors &nbsp; Floor shore us up above the void below cover us roof enclose us from the void above door keep out the angry stranger &nbsp; Hearth cherish the fire windows be beacons [&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\/1720"}],"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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}