{"id":10519,"date":"2010-12-27T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2010-12-27T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:23:06","slug":"for-my-friend-who-lost-her-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=10519","title":{"rendered":"For my friend who lost her daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If You Say It Right, It Helps the Heart to Bear It<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p>The comforts<br \/>\nof language<br \/>\nare true<br \/>\nand deep;<\/p>\n<p>in a cemetery,<br \/>\nin the South,<br \/>\nso many stones<br \/>\nand so many<\/p>\n<p>so small.<br \/>\nSometimes<br \/>\nthree or four<br \/>\nin a row.<\/p>\n<p>In this instance:<br \/>\nEliza May,<br \/>\nOceola,<br \/>\nJoseph.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine<br \/>\nthe condition<br \/>\nof the heart<br \/>\nof a mother<\/p>\n<p>or a father<br \/>\nwatching these plantings?<br \/>\nI cannot.<br \/>\nBut I try.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod taketh<br \/>\nhis young lambs home\u201d<br \/>\nis carved there.<br \/>\nA few words<\/p>\n<p>like water<br \/>\non a stone.<br \/>\nCool and beautiful<br \/>\nlike water on a stone.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If You Say It Right, It Helps the Heart to Bear It by Mary Oliver The comforts of language are true and deep; in a cemetery, in the South, so many stones and so many so small. Sometimes three or four in a row. In this instance: Eliza May, Oceola, Joseph. Can you imagine the condition of the heart of a mother or a father watching these plantings? I cannot. But I try. \u201cGod taketh&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2JF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10520,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions\/10520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}