{"id":1444,"date":"2007-12-21T23:18:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T11:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1444"},"modified":"2007-12-21T23:18:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T11:18:22","slug":"as-kingfishers-catch-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1444","title":{"rendered":"As kingfishers catch fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;<br \/>\nAs tumbled over rim in roundy wells<br \/>\nStones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell&#8217;s<br \/>\nBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;<br \/>\nEach mortal thing does one thing and the same:<br \/>\nDeals out that being indoors each one dwells;<br \/>\nSelves &ndash; goes itself; <em>myself<\/em> it speaks and spells,<br \/>\nCrying <em>What I do is me: for that I came<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I say more: the just man justices;<br \/>\nKeeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;<br \/>\nActs in God&#8217;s eye what in God&#8217;s eye he is &ndash;<br \/>\nChrist. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,<br \/>\nLovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his<br \/>\nTo the Father through the features of men&#8217;s faces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\t&ndash; Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell&#8217;s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves &ndash; goes itself; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}