{"id":2165,"date":"2013-04-05T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:02:57","slug":"eulogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/eulogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Eulogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Young<\/p>\n<p>To allow silence<br \/>\nTo admit it in us<\/p>\n<p>always moving<br \/>\nJust past<\/p>\n<p>senses, the darkness<br \/>\nWhat swallows us<\/p>\n<p>and we live amongst<br \/>\nWhat lives amongst us<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>These grim anchors<br \/>\nThat brief sanctity<\/p>\n<p>the sea<br \/>\nCast quite far<\/p>\n<p>when you seek<br \/>\n\u2014in your hats black<\/p>\n<p>and kerchiefs\u2014<br \/>\nto bury me<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Do not weep<br \/>\nbut once, and a long<\/p>\n<p>time then<br \/>\nThereafter eat till<\/p>\n<p>your stomach spills over<br \/>\nNo more! you&#8217;ll cry<\/p>\n<p>too full for your eyes<br \/>\nto leak<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The words will wait<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Place me in a plain<br \/>\npine box I have been<\/p>\n<p>for years building<br \/>\nIt is splinters<\/p>\n<p>not silver<br \/>\nIt is filled of hair<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Even the tongues<br \/>\nof bells shall still<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>You who will bear<br \/>\nmy body along<\/p>\n<p>Spirit me into the six<br \/>\nDo not startle<\/p>\n<p>at its lack of weight<br \/>\nHow light<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read on Good Friday, 2013, at St. Lydia&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Young To allow silence To admit it in us always moving Just past senses, the darkness What swallows us and we live amongst What lives amongst us * These grim anchors That brief sanctity the sea Cast quite far when you seek \u2014in your hats black and kerchiefs\u2014 to bury me * Do [&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\/2165"}],"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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}