{"id":2335,"date":"2017-05-26T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T04:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:00","slug":"may-26-goodbyes-over-a-half-century-in-pine-ridge-rez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/05\/26\/may-26-goodbyes-over-a-half-century-in-pine-ridge-rez\/","title":{"rendered":"May 26 &#8212; goodbyes over a half century in Pine Ridge Rez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 26, 2017<br \/>\nMost of this year\u2019s time on the Rez I\u2019ve already lived; \u00a0I begin to ease into the kind of sadness that tells me that the beauty of these long friendships and the long love of this land have found their way into my distractible imagination once again. \u00a0St Ignatius teaches that sadness during goodbyes is a good sign, \u00a0opens the beauty of the people and the place who have once again worked down into me and changed me. \u00a0So it is with most of us when our love for where we are in the world catches our attention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/05\/27\/enough-these-few-words-are-enough-david-whyte\/\">Here\u2019s the post I wrote one year ago, \u00a0David Whyte makes good company for the 2nd last of these 8 days.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a blest weekend. \u00a0 \u00a0next post on Mem Day from Motown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2336\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2017\/05\/PineRidgeRez-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 26, 2017 Most of this year\u2019s time on the Rez I\u2019ve already lived; \u00a0I begin to ease into the kind of sadness that tells me that the beauty of these long friendships and the long love of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/05\/26\/may-26-goodbyes-over-a-half-century-in-pine-ridge-rez\/\">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\/2335"}],"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=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}