{"id":753,"date":"2018-11-10T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorfred.blogsite.org\/?p=753"},"modified":"2018-11-10T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:03:26","slug":"waves-a-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Waves &#8212; A Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"font-family:serif;font-size:smaller;text-align:right\">\nIf all time is eternally present\nAll time is unredeemable\n-- T. S. Eliot, <i>Burnt Norton<\/i> \n<p style=\"font-family:serif;font-size:larger;text-align:left\">\nThey fool you by their endless repetition, \nMonotonous in its variety.\nYou think that they will always be the same\n(Always different) forever. \n\nI came, so young, to play by this blue sea, \nThe sky was blue, the sun a brilliant friend, \nThe beach a radiant, golden paradise. \nAnd time was not. \n\nAnd now my friend is taking the gold with him, \nDeparting for mysterious otherwheres, \nDiscarding, unwanted, the grey corpse of the day\nAs he bids me farewell.\n\nThe waves remain, like ticks of some huge clock.\nYou notice and exclaim, \u201cHow late it is!\u201d \nYou rush and hope that haste can set things right, \nThen all at once you stop. \n\nNow but few ticks are left before that stopping \nWhere once there seemed an endless treasure hoard, \nToo great to count. I count them now, and still\nI waste them. \n\nGod beyond time, You hold my past like my future. \nI have not redeemed the present.\nYou must redeem the past. \nYou must redeem me.\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable &#8212; T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton They fool you by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[5,131],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-eternity","tag-time","has-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.homedns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}