{"id":330,"date":"2010-11-19T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:45:36","slug":"carl-sandberg-our-prayer-of-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/330\/poems\/carl-sandberg-our-prayer-of-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sandberg &#8211; Our Prayer of Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chicago Poems.  1916.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river,<br \/>\nOur prayer of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted and bareheaded in the summer grass,<br \/>\nOur prayer of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>For the sunset and the stars, the women and the white arms that hold us,<br \/>\nOur prayer of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>God,<br \/>\nIf you are deaf and blind, if this is all lost to you,<br \/>\nGod, if the dead in their coffins amid the silver handles on the edge of town, or the reckless dead of war days thrown unknown in pits, if these dead are forever deaf and blind and lost,<br \/>\nOur prayer of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>God,<br \/>\nThe game is all your way, the secrets and the signals and the system; and so for the break of the game and the first play and the last.<br \/>\nOur prayer of thanks.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Poems. 1916. For the gladness here where the sun is shining at evening on the weeds at the river, Our prayer of thanks. For the laughter of children who tumble barefooted and bareheaded in the summer grass, Our prayer of thanks. For the sunset and the stars, the women and the white arms that <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/330\/poems\/carl-sandberg-our-prayer-of-thanks\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}