{"id":30641,"date":"2014-04-01T08:24:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30641"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:24:32","slug":"will-spring-in-new-england-ever-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/will-spring-in-new-england-ever-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Spring in New England ever come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A day following 4 inches of snow in CT, today we are expecting 50 degrees and gorgeous sunshine. But as a New Englander the grandeur of God even flames out with snowfall.\u00a0But, it is time for spring!!! I think of Gerard Manley Hopkins\u2019 poem \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur\u201d, especially the first line, is a good way to appreciate the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world is charged with the grandeur of God.<br \/>\nIt will flame out, like shining from shook foil;<br \/>\nIt gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil<br \/>\nCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?<br \/>\nGenerations have trod, have trod, have trod;<br \/>\nAnd all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;<br \/>\nAnd wears man\u2019s smudge and shares man\u2019s smell: the soil<br \/>\nIs bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.<\/p>\n<p>And for all this, nature is never spent;<br \/>\nThere lives the dearest freshness deep down things;<br \/>\nAnd though the last lights off the black West went<br \/>\nOh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs \u2014<br \/>\nBecause the Holy Ghost over the bent<br \/>\nWorld broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard Manley Hopkins<br \/>\n\u201cPoems and Prose\u201d (Penguin Classics, 1985)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day following 4 inches of snow in CT, today we are expecting 50 degrees and gorgeous sunshine. But as a New Englander the grandeur of God even flames out with snowfall.\u00a0But, it is time for spring!!! I think of Gerard Manley Hopkins\u2019 poem \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur\u201d, especially the first line, is a good way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/will-spring-in-new-england-ever-come\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Spring in New England ever come?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1734,1881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30642,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30641\/revisions\/30642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}