{"id":2452,"date":"2017-11-08T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:53","slug":"november-8-looks-different-from-detroit-at-6-000-feet-and-30-degrees-fahrenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/11\/08\/november-8-looks-different-from-detroit-at-6-000-feet-and-30-degrees-fahrenheit\/","title":{"rendered":"November 8 Looks different from Detroit at 6, 000 feet and 30 degrees Fahrenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m helping with a silent retreat at the Jesuit retreat house on the prairie just south of Denver.\u00a0 Each morning and evening a small herd of mule deer is outside my window grazing in our very large yard (circa 250 acres).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be back on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s post\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Rabindranath<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Tagore<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0<u>Gitanjali #\u00a05<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment\u2019s indulgence to sit by thy side,<br \/>\nThe works that I have in hand<br \/>\nI will finish afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Away from the sight of thy face<br \/>\nmy heart knows no rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil<br \/>\nin a shoreless sea of toil.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to sit quiet,<br \/>\nface to face with thee<br \/>\nand to sing dedication of life<br \/>\nin this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m helping with a silent retreat at the Jesuit retreat house on the prairie just south of Denver.\u00a0 Each morning and evening a small herd of mule deer is outside my window grazing in our very large yard (circa 250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/11\/08\/november-8-looks-different-from-detroit-at-6-000-feet-and-30-degrees-fahrenheit\/\">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\/2452"}],"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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}