{"id":737,"date":"2011-05-06T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-05-06T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:10:11","slug":"a-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p>Look, it\u2019s spring. And last year\u2019s loose dust has turned<br \/>\ninto this soft willingness. The wind-flowers have come<br \/>\nup trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their<br \/>\ncurvaceous and pale bodies. The thrushes have come<br \/>\nhome, none less than filled with mystery, sorrow,<br \/>\nhappiness, music, ambition.<\/p>\n<p>And I am walking out into all of this with nowhere to<br \/>\ngo and no task undertaken but to turn the pages of<br \/>\nthis beautiful world over and over, in the world of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<br \/>\nTherefore, dark past,<br \/>\nI\u2019m about to do it.<br \/>\nI\u2019m about to forgive you<\/p>\n<p>for everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at the St. Lydia&#8217;s Easter Vigil<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mary Oliver Look, it\u2019s spring. And last year\u2019s loose dust has turned into this soft willingness. The wind-flowers have come up trembling, slowly the brackens are up-lifting their curvaceous and pale bodies. The thrushes have come home, none less than filled with mystery, sorrow, happiness, music, ambition. And I am walking out into all [&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\/737"}],"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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}