{"id":657,"date":"2011-04-14T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T10:15:32","slug":"holy-sonnet-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/holy-sonnet-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Sonnet 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Donne<\/p>\n<p>Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you<br \/>\nAs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;<br \/>\nThat I may rise, and stand, o&#8217;erthrow me, and bend<br \/>\nYour force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.<br \/>\nI, like an usurped town, to another due,<br \/>\nLabour to admit you, but Oh, to no end.<br \/>\nReason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,<br \/>\nBut is captived, and proves weak or untrue.<br \/>\nYet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,<br \/>\nBut am betrothed unto your enemy:<br \/>\nDivorce me, untie or break that knot again,<br \/>\nTake me to you, imprison me, for I,<br \/>\nExcept you enthrall me, never shall be free,<br \/>\nNor ever chaste, except you ravish me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on April 3<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o&#8217;erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurped town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but Oh, to [&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\/657"}],"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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}