{"id":1956,"date":"2016-08-31T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:38","slug":"last-day-of-august-garrison-keillor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/08\/31\/last-day-of-august-garrison-keillor\/","title":{"rendered":"last day of August &#8211;  Garrison Keillor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday \u00a0August 31 \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0\u201cA little faith will see you through\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For this last day of August, \u00a0here\u2019s a short Garrison Keillor poem, crackling with wit, the trenchant, sour sort woven into the playful, kind and wise. \u00a0A mid-week break should you be finding this election season&#8217;s angry public language tedious and distressing.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest day. \u00a0The poem wants to hear itself out loud.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A little\u00a0 faith will see you through.<br \/>\nWhat else will except faith in such a cynical corrupt time?<br \/>\nWhen the country goes temporarily to the dogs,<br \/>\ncats must learn to be circumspect,<br \/>\nwalk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith<br \/>\nthat all this woofing is not the last word.<\/p>\n<p>Even in a time of elephantine greed and vanity,<br \/>\none never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.<br \/>\nLacking any other purpose in life,<br \/>\nit would be good enough to live for their sake.<\/p>\n<p>Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n<p>September 25, 2010 \u2014 the picnic after Celebrate Spirit by Detroit Mercy\u2019s fountain<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1957 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic.jpg\" alt=\"picnic\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2016\/08\/picnic-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday \u00a0August 31 \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0\u201cA little faith will see you through\u201d For this last day of August, \u00a0here\u2019s a short Garrison Keillor poem, crackling with wit, the trenchant, sour sort woven into the playful, kind and wise. \u00a0A mid-week break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/08\/31\/last-day-of-august-garrison-keillor\/\">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\/1956"}],"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=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}