{"id":408,"date":"2010-11-10T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T15:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2010-11-10T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T15:16:06","slug":"notes-from-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/notes-from-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Kenyon<\/p>\n<p>I divested myself of despair<br \/>\nand fear when I came here.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is no more catching<br \/>\none&#8217;s own eye in the mirror,<\/p>\n<p>there are no bad books, no plastic,<br \/>\nno insurance premiums, and of course<\/p>\n<p>no illness. Contrition<br \/>\ndoes not exist, nor gnashing<\/p>\n<p>of teeth. No one howls as the first<br \/>\nclod of earth hits the casket.<\/p>\n<p>The poor we no longer have with us.<br \/>\nOur calm hearts strike only the hour,<\/p>\n<p>and God, as promised, proves<br \/>\nto be mercy clothed in light.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on November 7<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jane Kenyon I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one&#8217;s own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of course no illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first [&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\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}