{"id":2242,"date":"2017-03-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:11","slug":"st-ps-day-remembering-an-immigrant-from-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/03\/17\/st-ps-day-remembering-an-immigrant-from-long-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"St. P&#8217;s Day &#8212; remembering an immigrant from long ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday. March 17\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 an immigrant story from decades ago \u2013\u00a0\u201cher real name was \u00a0\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 &gt; \u00a0Silvia: \u00a0S-i-l-v-i-a\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/16\/march-16-immigrant\/\">John McPhee\u2019s brief, tightly woven, contemplation of an Irish immigrant dear to him, first appeared on the list one year ago yesterday.<\/a> \u00a0Think it has something to do with St. Patrick\u2019s day in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is one of the shortest of the 458 posted since September 2013 when the list began. \u00a0 Even more helpful, with a brief poem, to read out loud with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday. March 17\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 an immigrant story from decades ago \u2013\u00a0\u201cher real name was \u00a0\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 &gt; \u00a0Silvia: \u00a0S-i-l-v-i-a\u201d John McPhee\u2019s brief, tightly woven, contemplation of an Irish immigrant dear to him, first appeared on the list one year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/03\/17\/st-ps-day-remembering-an-immigrant-from-long-ago\/\">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\/2242"}],"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=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}