{"id":931,"date":"2011-09-16T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2011-09-16T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:50:45","slug":"the-beginning-of-wisdom-proverbs-9-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-beginning-of-wisdom-proverbs-9-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of Wisdom (Proverbs 9.-10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Denise Levertov<\/p>\n<p>You have brought me so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>I know so much.\u00a0 Names, verbs, images.\u00a0 My mind<br \/>\noverflows, a drawer that can&#8217;t close.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Unscathed among the tortured.\u00a0 Ignorant parchment<br \/>\nuninscribed, light strokes only, where a scribe<br \/>\ntried out a pen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>I am so small, a speck of dust<br \/>\nmoving across the huge world.\u00a0 The world<br \/>\na speck of dust in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Are you holding<br \/>\nthe universe?\u00a0 You hold<br \/>\nonto my smallness.\u00a0 How do you grasp it,<br \/>\nhow does it not<br \/>\nslip away?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>I know so little.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>You have brought me so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on September 11, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Denise Levertov You have brought me so far. \u2022 I know so much.\u00a0 Names, verbs, images.\u00a0 My mind overflows, a drawer that can&#8217;t close. \u2022 Unscathed among the tortured.\u00a0 Ignorant parchment uninscribed, light strokes only, where a scribe tried out a pen. \u2022 I am so small, a speck of dust moving across 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\/931"}],"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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}