{"id":547,"date":"2014-05-02T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=547"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:25","slug":"may-2-tgif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/05\/02\/may-2-tgif\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2  &#8212;  TGIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 2, 2014 \u00a0\u2014 time for a little rest<\/p>\n<p>Bet I am not the only one tired; and glad to see Friday. A weekend after even campus parking lots get a rest from the press and hustle of student traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a long-loved poem I\u2019ve posted before. Good coaching for slower breathing these next couple days.<\/p>\n<p>john st sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment&#8217;s indulgence to sit by thy side,<br \/>\nThe works that I have in hand<br \/>\nI will finish afterwards.<br \/>\nAway 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<p><strong>Tagore 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daffodils at Sunrise &#8211; April 1, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Daffodils.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-548\" alt=\"Daffodils\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Daffodils.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Daffodils.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/05\/Daffodils-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, May 2, 2014 \u00a0\u2014 time for a little rest Bet I am not the only one tired; and glad to see Friday. A weekend after even campus parking lots get a rest from the press and hustle of student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/05\/02\/may-2-tgif\/\">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\/547"}],"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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}