{"id":10854,"date":"2019-09-02T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10854"},"modified":"2019-09-02T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T00:06:10","slug":"poem-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10854","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I love T.S. Eliot and adore the Four Quartets, but I can&#8217;t tell a good poem from a lewd sea chanty; in fact, I incline to think there&#8217;s a lot of overlap.  I know what I like, though, and I applaud the young woman who wrote these lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou are depraved!\u201d is missing, too.<br \/>\nWorthy-of-eternal-torment-for-being-born no longer the mantra<br \/>\nBerating me over and over<br \/>\nAnd over.<br \/>\nNot even a murmur declaring me<br \/>\nEvil, sinful, wicked, debased, weak, less-than.<br \/>\nEvery condemnation for merely being human is muted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2019\/09\/nothing-by-angie-jay\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nothing-by-angie-jay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Gerencser&#8217;s blog<\/a>, and those of you who have sensed the malice and degradation at the heart of Christian thought will recognize her words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I love T.S. Eliot and adore the Four Quartets, but I can&#8217;t tell a good poem from a lewd sea chanty; in fact, I incline to think there&#8217;s a lot of overlap. I know what I like, though, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10854\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10854\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}