{"id":457,"date":"2010-12-09T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-12-09T08:53:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T13:53:22","slug":"the-hidden-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-hidden-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<p>The gods are less<br \/>\nfor their love of praise.<br \/>\nAbove and below them all<br \/>\nis a spirit that needs<br \/>\nnothing but its own<br \/>\nwholeness,<br \/>\nits health and ours.<br \/>\nIt has made all things<br \/>\nby dividing itself.<br \/>\nIt will be whole again.<br \/>\nTo its joy we come<br \/>\ntogether\u2014the seer<br \/>\nand the seen, the eater<br \/>\nand the eaten, the lover<br \/>\nand the loved.<br \/>\nIn our joining it knows<br \/>\nitself. It is with us then,<br \/>\nnot as the gods<br \/>\nwhose names crest<br \/>\nin unearthly fire,<br \/>\nbut as a little bird<br \/>\nhidden in the leaves<br \/>\nwho sings quietly<br \/>\nand waits<br \/>\nand sings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wendell Berry The gods are less for their love of praise. Above and below them all is a spirit that needs nothing but its own wholeness, its health and ours. It has made all things by dividing itself. It will be whole again. To its joy we come together\u2014the seer and the seen, the [&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\/457"}],"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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}