{"id":7632,"date":"2015-11-26T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2015-11-26T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:55:09","slug":"merci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7632","title":{"rendered":"Merci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely village of St. Cyprien-Dordogne is where we were living <a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7454\" target=\"_blank\">last Thanksgiving<\/a>, celebrating quietly and far from home. This year, back in our native land, and happy and thankful for the beloved company of family and old friends, we\u2019re also grateful for those we came to know in our adopted land and anxious about the recent attacks on this spirited, creative, humorous and resilient people. I look forward to a day (probably centuries beyond my lifetime) when we might celebrate in harmony a universal Thanksgiving in appreciation for our beautiful world and everyone in it.<\/p>\n<p>Below, a poem for this day.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AutumnStCyprienR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7646\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AutumnStCyprienR.jpg\" alt=\"AutumnStCyprienR\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AutumnStCyprienR.jpg 700w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AutumnStCyprienR-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AutumnStCyprienR-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Te Deum<\/em><br \/>\nNot because of victories<br \/>\nI sing,<br \/>\nhaving none,<br \/>\nbut for the common sunshine,<br \/>\nthe breeze,<br \/>\nthe largess of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Not for victory<br \/>\nbut for the day\u2019s work done<br \/>\nas well as I was able;<br \/>\nnot for a seat upon the dais<br \/>\nbut at the common table.<br \/>\n<em>\u2014Charles Reznikoff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely village of St. Cyprien-Dordogne is where we were living last Thanksgiving, celebrating quietly and far from home. This year, back in our native land, and happy and thankful for the beloved company of family and old friends, we\u2019re also grateful for those we came to know in our adopted land and anxious about<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=7632\">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":[64],"tags":[123,23,162,81,61,19,52],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-autumn","tag-festival","tag-france-2014-15","tag-landscape","tag-oil","tag-poem","tag-still-life"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","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=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7647,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}