{"id":188,"date":"2013-12-17T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=188"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:34","slug":"december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/12\/17\/december-17\/","title":{"rendered":"December 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday December 17<\/p>\n<p>This last day students take finals this term; campus decompresses and campus intensifies: grading exams and processing the grades adds labor intensivity around the university &#8212; grades entered into student records; letters of academic probation and dismissal &#8212; recording achievement and days of reckoning. Grief for students we didn&#8217;t find a way to help enough, determination to engage other students needing help. Sorting out legitimate disputes, and less legitimate. The labors at the end of term.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings to each of us whose labor pressure rises these days.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<br \/>\nD. H. Lawrence, of Lady Chatterly fame, wrote poetry as well. Here is an Advent prayer if there ever was one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/D.-H.-Lawrence.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2013\/12\/D.-H.-Lawrence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cWhat is the knocking?<br \/>\nWhat is the knocking at the door in the night?<br \/>\nIt is somebody who wants to do us harm.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015 D.H. Lawrence, Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday December 17 This last day students take finals this term; campus decompresses and campus intensifies: grading exams and processing the grades adds labor intensivity around the university &#8212; grades entered into student records; letters of academic probation and dismissal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/12\/17\/december-17\/\">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\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}