{"id":15310,"date":"2019-04-01T00:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T05:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=15310"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:04:15","slug":"religious-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15310","title":{"rendered":"Religious Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For a short time each morning<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">it is possible to believe<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">that God spent the night<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">cutting the flat black shapes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">of trees from the sky,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">wondrously complicated holes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">that only become visible<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">when the sky\u2019s light<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">begins to slowly come on.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It is an exercise in faith<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ruined differently each morning.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">For instance, today by two crows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then God must start over\u2014so<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">many branches to retrace and snip\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">it\u2019s no wonder he can\u2019t<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hear our prayers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/15227\">Heather Christle<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a short time each morning it is possible to believe that God spent the night cutting the flat black shapes of trees from the sky, wondrously complicated holes that only become visible when the sky\u2019s light begins to slowly come on. It is an exercise in faith ruined differently each morning. For instance, today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[58],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3YW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15311,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15310\/revisions\/15311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}