{"id":2447,"date":"2010-08-08T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2010-08-17T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T02:47:58","slug":"water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my sketchbook, the fountain in the courtyard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asia.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Freer Gallery of Art<\/span><\/a>, a quiet place to sit and meditate (and wish you were in that pool). And a verse for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/FreerFountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2448\" title=\"FreerFountain\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/FreerFountain.jpg\" alt=\"FreerFountain\" width=\"432\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/FreerFountain.jpg 800w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/FreerFountain-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">If I were called in<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">To construct a religion<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">I should make use of water.<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Going to church<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Would entail a fording<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">To dry, different clothes;<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">My liturgy would employ<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Images of sousing,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">A furious devout drench,<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">And I should raise in the east<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">A glass of water<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Where any-angled light<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Would congregate endlessly.<\/span><\/address>\n<p><em> \u2014 Philip Larkin<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Centaur MT', 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: large;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my sketchbook, the fountain in the courtyard of the Freer Gallery of Art, a quiet place to sit and meditate (and wish you were in that pool). And a verse for Sunday. If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2447\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,17,19,3],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}