{"id":1647,"date":"2015-12-14T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:05","slug":"dec-14-we-need-your-humor-o-highly-praised-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/12\/14\/dec-14-we-need-your-humor-o-highly-praised-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 14 &#8211; &#8220;We need your humor, O highly praised One&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday,\u00a0December 14<\/p>\n<p>Last August, Professor Fatemeh Keshavarz, poet and scholar, sent this poem to UDM\u2019s \u201cwork day in a hard time\u201d poetry list. \u00a0We posted it last August 14. \u00a0This morning the language of the poem feels just right given the overheated angry language skidding about in the public forum after the San Bernardino shootings. \u00a0Fatemeh tells me that \u201cO Highly Praised One\u201d is the translation of \u201cMohammad.\u201d \u00a0Fatemeh wrote these words as a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/08\/14\/august-14-we-need-your-humoro-highly-praised-one\/\">\u201csmuggle some more of your laughter into this poem\u201d \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0. \u00a0\u201cWe need your humor, O highly praised One.\u201d \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blessings on your work week.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday,\u00a0December 14 Last August, Professor Fatemeh Keshavarz, poet and scholar, sent this poem to UDM\u2019s \u201cwork day in a hard time\u201d poetry list. \u00a0We posted it last August 14. \u00a0This morning the language of the poem feels just right given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/12\/14\/dec-14-we-need-your-humor-o-highly-praised-one\/\">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\/1647"}],"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=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}