{"id":1553,"date":"2015-10-07T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:14","slug":"oct-7-grace-lee-boggs-october-5-at-age-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/10\/07\/oct-7-grace-lee-boggs-october-5-at-age-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 7 &#8211; Grace Lee Boggs + October 5 at age 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday, October 7, \u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf there\u2019s any image of her that\u2019s lasting, it\u2019s not of her talking, it\u2019s of her listening to people.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>Shea Powell, Oakland University<\/p>\n<p>One of Detroit\u2019s compelling leaders died over the weekend at age 100. \u00a0Many readers of this list know her and many do not. \u00a0In either case today\u2019s post is not a poem in the ordinary sense. \u00a0 Nancy Kaffer, a <u>Detroit Free Press<\/u>\u00a0columnist, wrote a eulogy that opens the reader to perceive grace everywhere, \u00a0but especially, because of Grace, all over the city of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on \u00a0your Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post: <\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2015\/10\/05\/grace-lee-boggs-dead-obituary\/73385748\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGrace Lee Boggs, Detroit activist, dies at age 100\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, October 7, \u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf there\u2019s any image of her that\u2019s lasting, it\u2019s not of her talking, it\u2019s of her listening to people.\u201d Shea Powell, Oakland University One of Detroit\u2019s compelling leaders died over the weekend at age 100. \u00a0Many readers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/10\/07\/oct-7-grace-lee-boggs-october-5-at-age-100\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}