{"id":120609,"date":"2023-04-28T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120609"},"modified":"2023-04-28T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T00:58:18","slug":"poetry-for-easter-les-murrays-easter-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120609","title":{"rendered":"Poetry for Easter&#8211;Les Murray&#8217;s Easter 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we saw human dignity<br \/>\nhealing humans in the middle of the day<\/p>\n<p>we moved in on him slowly<br \/>\nunder the incalculable gravity<\/p>\n<p>of old freedom, of our own freedom,<br \/>\nunder atmospheres of consequence, of justice<\/p>\n<p>under which no one needs to thank anyone.<br \/>\nIf this was God, we would get even.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end we nailed him,<br \/>\nlashed, spittled, stretched him limb from limb&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1517.org\/podcast-overview\/2020-10-19\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This unfinished Michelangelo is one painting telling the story of Easter in the Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Po1mVqy6qk\">http:\/\/t.co\/Po1mVqy6qk<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TOYBdRrimD\">pic.twitter.com\/TOYBdRrimD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; National Gallery (@NationalGallery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NationalGallery\/status\/584673087968321536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2015<\/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>When we saw human dignity healing humans in the middle of the day we moved in on him slowly under the incalculable gravity of old freedom, of our own freedom, under atmospheres of consequence, of justice under which no one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120609\">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":[204,571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120609","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=120609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120612,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120609\/revisions\/120612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}