{"id":2997,"date":"2024-04-07T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2024-04-07T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T12:42:41","slug":"from-what-i-understand-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"From What I Understand, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From What I Understand<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From what I understand, the creation wept itself<br \/>\ninto being\u2014from the unseen to the seen,<br \/>\nfrom the subtle inwardness of elegant winds<br \/>\nto the storm urging on the lightning, from<br \/>\ncoffins made of seashells to bread dissolving<br \/>\nin water, and the swan\u2019s belly. Life has no intermissions,<br \/>\nand the scholar of needs explains everything,<br \/>\nand we all know whenever something is taught<br \/>\nsomething is omitted. I don\u2019t know where<br \/>\nthese words are going or where they\u2019re coming from,<br \/>\nbut my hair is bathed in wind and combed by the rain, and heaven<br \/>\nis the greater punishment, and I am weeping too.<br \/>\nMy organized body\u2014a prelude to every moment now.<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m off to go talking with the liturgical trees.<\/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=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><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>From What I Understand by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; From what I understand, the creation wept itself into being\u2014from the unseen to the seen, from the subtle inwardness of elegant winds to the storm urging on the lightning, from coffins made of seashells to bread dissolving in water, and the swan\u2019s belly. Life has no [&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\/2997"}],"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=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}