{"id":2657,"date":"2014-02-05T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2014-02-05T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:55:13","slug":"discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Wislawa Szymborska<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the great discovery.<br \/>\nI believe in the man who will make the discovery.<br \/>\nI believe in the fear of the man who will make the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in his face going white,<br \/>\nHis queasiness, his upper lip drenched in cold sweat.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the burning of his notes,<br \/>\nburning them into ashes,<br \/>\nburning them to the last scrap.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the scattering of numbers,<br \/>\nscattering them without regret.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the man\u2019s haste,<br \/>\nin the precision of his movements,<br \/>\nin his free will.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the shattering of tablets,<br \/>\nthe pouring out of liquids,<br \/>\nthe extinguishing of rays.<\/p>\n<p>I am convinced this will end well,<br \/>\nthat it will not be too late,<br \/>\nthat it will take place without witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure no one will find out what happened,<br \/>\nnot the wife, not the wall,<br \/>\nnot even the bird that might squeal in its song.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the refusal to take part.<br \/>\nI believe in the ruined career.<br \/>\nI believe in the wasted years of work.<br \/>\nI believe in the secret taken to the grave.<\/p>\n<p>These words soar for me beyond all rules<br \/>\nwithout seeking support from actual examples.<br \/>\nMy faith is strong, blind, and without foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>read at St. Lydia\u2019s on 2\/3\/2014<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wislawa Szymborska I believe in the great discovery. I believe in the man who will make the discovery. I believe in the fear of the man who will make the discovery. I believe in his face going white, His queasiness, his upper lip drenched in cold sweat. I believe in the burning of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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\/2657"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}