{"id":2072,"date":"2016-11-08T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:32","slug":"a-contemplation-for-us-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/11\/08\/a-contemplation-for-us-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"a contemplation for US election day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Most of you have read this crisp, wise, brief poem from William Carlos Williams. \u00a0It came to mind this morning when many citizens in the US face into the wind\u2019s teeth, one reality \u00a0that women and men in this divided country share with each other.<\/p>\n<p>blessings,<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 The Manoeuvre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw the two starlings<br \/>\ncoming in toward the wires<br \/>\nBut at the last,<br \/>\njust before alighting, they<br \/>\nturned in the air together<br \/>\nand landed backwards!<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what got me \u2014<br \/>\nto face into the wind\u2019s teeth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"William Carlos Williams\" width=\"220\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2016 Most of you have read this crisp, wise, brief poem from William Carlos Williams. \u00a0It came to mind this morning when many citizens in the US face into the wind\u2019s teeth, one reality \u00a0that women and men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/11\/08\/a-contemplation-for-us-election-day\/\">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\/2072"}],"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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}