{"id":2206,"date":"2013-05-24T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2013-05-24T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:49:31","slug":"thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by W. S. Merwin<\/p>\n<p>Listen<br \/>\nwith the night falling we are saying thank you<br \/>\nwe are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings<br \/>\nwe are running out of the glass rooms<br \/>\nwith our mouths full of food to look at the sky<br \/>\nand say thank you<br \/>\nwe are standing by the water thanking it<br \/>\nsmiling by the windows looking out<br \/>\nin our directions<\/p>\n<p>back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging<br \/>\nafter funerals we are saying thank you<br \/>\nafter the news of the dead<br \/>\nwhether or not we knew them we are saying thank you<\/p>\n<p>over telephones we are saying thank you<br \/>\nin doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators<br \/>\nremembering wars and the police at the door<br \/>\nand the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you<br \/>\nin the banks we are saying thank you<br \/>\nin the faces of the officials and the rich<br \/>\nand of all who will never change<br \/>\nwe go on saying thank you thank you<\/p>\n<p>with the animals dying around us<br \/>\nour lost feelings we are saying thank you<br \/>\nwith the forests falling faster than the minutes<br \/>\nof our lives we are saying thank you<br \/>\nwith the words going out like cells of a brain<br \/>\nwith the cities growing over us<br \/>\nwe are saying thank you faster and faster<br \/>\nwith nobody listening we are saying thank you<br \/>\nwe are saying thank you and waving<br \/>\ndark though it is<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on Sunday, May 12, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by W. S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking [&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\/2206"}],"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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}