{"id":4388,"date":"2008-02-09T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2008-02-09T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T20:11:01","slug":"a-poem-and-a-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/02\/a-poem-and-a-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem and a Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the poem:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VI.<br \/>\nWe travelers, walking to the sun, can&#8217;t see<br \/>\nAhead, but looking back the very light<br \/>\nThat blinded us shows us the way we came,<br \/>\nAlong which blessings now appear, risen<br \/>\nAs from sightlessness to sight, and we,<br \/>\nBy blessing brightly lit, keep going toward<br \/>\nThat blessed light that yet to us is dark.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell Berry,  <i>Given: New Poems<\/i> (Berkeley, CA: Shoemaker Hoard, 2005), 74.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/conference\/talk\/display\/0,5232,23-1-775-24,00.html\">the sermon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the poem:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}