{"id":35798,"date":"2020-03-10T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=35798"},"modified":"2020-03-10T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:26:16","slug":"calibrated-and-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/calibrated-and-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Calibrated and fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coffee-pot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35799 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coffee-pot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>Nearly every morning<br \/>\nI make a cup of coffee<br \/>\nin my battered old moka pot.<\/p>\n<p>While the coffee sputters and fizzes<br \/>\ntoward completion<br \/>\nI carefully place a dusty crumb of incense<br \/>\non the burner, next to the pot.<\/p>\n<p>I watch as a thin curl of smoke rises,<br \/>\nas the fragrant molecules of resin ignite:<br \/>\nmyyrh, frankincense, rose, spiknard, jasmine, and the mysterious opercula of the wing-shell mollusk.<\/p>\n<p>Uncounted mornings, evenings, and high holy days have calibrated and fixed<br \/>\na specific set of connections between embodiment and sacred<br \/>\nthrough the everyday science of breathing,<br \/>\nso that simply sitting here by the stove<br \/>\nand waiting for coffee<br \/>\nbecomes church.<\/p>\n<p>Iliana Filby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly every morning I make a cup of coffee in my battered old moka pot. While the coffee sputters and fizzes toward completion I carefully place a dusty crumb of incense on the burner, next to the pot. I watch as a thin curl of smoke rises, as the fragrant molecules of resin ignite: myyrh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/calibrated-and-fixed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calibrated and fixed<\/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":[77],"tags":[3224,32311,1881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798"}],"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=35798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35800,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35798\/revisions\/35800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}