{"id":3180,"date":"2023-10-16T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2023-10-16T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:16:02","slug":"half-baked-prayer-so-far-so-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"Half-Baked Prayer (So Far, So Near)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I still have an oven, I can bake bread and knock on the crust:&nbsp;<br \/>a hostage might answer.<br \/>Because yeast is alive for a short time,<br \/>embroider my name in your handmade world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh long reams of sheets on the ironing board,\u00a0<br \/>I give you my full attention.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>I give you Simone Weil and Malebranche:\u00a0<br \/>attentiveness the soul\u2019s natural prayer\u00a0<br \/>Is prayer.\u00a0\u00a0Pray, pray. With feet.\u00a0\u00a0With flowers, sticks.<br \/>With undone lips, with murmuring surf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I still have an oven, I can bake bread and knock on the crust:&nbsp;a hostage might answer.Because yeast is alive for a short time,embroider my name in your handmade world. Oh long reams of sheets on the ironing board,\u00a0I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3180\">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":[170,1334,1333,1332,1282],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diaspora","tag-hostages","tag-israel-2","tag-israeli-hamas-war","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Pi","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}