{"id":2161,"date":"2020-04-08T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T16:20:42","slug":"a-sonnet-for-seder-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2161","title":{"rendered":"A Sonnet for Seder during Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sonnet for Seder during Lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing is new under the sun, not even confinement. &nbsp;<br \/>The sun is not new, narrow straits not new,&nbsp;<br \/>the liberation story rolls like time in search&nbsp;<br \/>of an ending.&nbsp; With Passover we should be done&nbsp;<br \/>but we keep narrating, like old people forgetting<br \/>we\u2019ve already told it five thousand times.&nbsp;<br \/>The more freedom, the more we struggle<br \/>to know what it means. The truth of Exodus&nbsp;<br \/>is on trial, in crisis.&nbsp; Salt waters crest&nbsp;<br \/>to our chins.&nbsp; Awestruck, we know nothing<br \/>can be said though we testify and babble&nbsp;<br \/>in quivering attempt. We want to want more keenly.<br \/>On high, the Lover is never quite satisfied;<br \/>He sees our desire raw, though not raw enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet for Seder during Lockdown Nothing is new under the sun, not even confinement. &nbsp;The sun is not new, narrow straits not new,&nbsp;the liberation story rolls like time in search&nbsp;of an ending.&nbsp; With Passover we should be done&nbsp;but we keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2161\">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":{"_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":[958,957,186,964,684],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-passover","tag-poem-for-seder","tag-seder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-yR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}