{"id":119840,"date":"2023-03-31T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119840"},"modified":"2023-03-31T05:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:57:31","slug":"ch-john-donne-thanksgiving-in-the-midst-of-fear-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119840","title":{"rendered":"(CH) John Donne&#8211;Thanksgiving in the Midst of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to &#8220;the guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne&#8217;s] darkest days.&#8221; They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, &#8220;In the midst of plague times, how can we give thanks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the three poems excerpted by Yancey, with his clarifying revisions of Donne&#8217;s eighteenth-century language&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/2008\/august\/thanksgiving-in-midst-of-fear.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">31 Mar 1631: d. John Donne, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/poet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#poet<\/a> &amp; cleric in the deanery of St Paul\u2019s London <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/otd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#otd<\/a> having earlier posed in his own shroud (BM\/NPG) <\/p>\n<p>A striking man in his day. Among other things. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v1mX30Fy6N\">pic.twitter.com\/v1mX30Fy6N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1641703104214192128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to &#8220;the guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne&#8217;s] darkest days.&#8221; They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, &#8220;In the midst of plague times, how can we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=119840\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,324,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119842,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119840\/revisions\/119842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}