{"id":1766,"date":"2012-09-12T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:04:20","slug":"truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/truth\/","title":{"rendered":"truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Gwendolyn Brooks<\/p>\n<p>And if sun comes<\/p>\n<div>How shall we greet him?<\/div>\n<div>Shall we not dread him,<\/div>\n<div>Shall we not fear him<\/div>\n<div>After so lengthy a<\/div>\n<div>Session with shade?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Though we have wept for him,<\/div>\n<div>Though we have prayed<\/div>\n<div>All through the night-years\u2014<\/div>\n<div>What if we wake one shimmering morning to<\/div>\n<div>Hear the fierce hammering<\/div>\n<div>Of his firm knuckles<\/div>\n<div>Hard on the door?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shall we not shudder?\u2014<\/div>\n<div>Shall we not flee<\/div>\n<div>Into the shelter, the dear thick shelter<\/div>\n<div>Of the familiar<\/div>\n<div>Propitious haze?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sweet is it, sweet is it<\/div>\n<div>To sleep in the coolness<\/div>\n<div>Of snug unawareness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The dark hangs heavily<\/div>\n<div>Over the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on September 9, 2012<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gwendolyn Brooks And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him, Shall we not fear him After so lengthy a Session with shade? Though we have wept for him, Though we have prayed All through the night-years\u2014 What if we wake one shimmering morning to Hear the fierce hammering [&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\/1766"}],"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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}