{"id":2943,"date":"2024-03-01T07:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2024-03-01T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T12:49:45","slug":"what-tertullian-said-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"What Tertullian Said, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Tertullian Said<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After morning, the day says:<br \/>\n\u201cLet\u2019s put it this way, etcetera, etcetera.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I wake, rubbing up against reality,<br \/>\nthe small self rebinding.<\/p>\n<p>The rainmaker has come to town,<br \/>\nand, on behalf of silence, I will<br \/>\nknock the angel\u2019s mouth<br \/>\naway from Mary\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n<p>We are all walking gravemarkers,<br \/>\nand the frogs with the golden eyes<br \/>\nare better gods.<\/p>\n<p>The world moves in languages,<br \/>\nand the other dead are telling us things&#8211;<br \/>\nabout how everyday ends unfinished.<br \/>\nRadiance, use your metaphoric mind<br \/>\nfor the better use of hope, and say along<br \/>\nwith Tertullian: \u201cI believe because it\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.215\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Tertullian Said by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; After morning, the day says: \u201cLet\u2019s put it this way, etcetera, etcetera.\u201d And I wake, rubbing up against reality, the small self rebinding. The rainmaker has come to town, and, on behalf of silence, I will knock the angel\u2019s mouth away from Mary\u2019s ear. We are all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}