{"id":133879,"date":"2025-01-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133879"},"modified":"2025-01-01T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:21:22","slug":"minnie-louise-haskins-on-the-gate-of-the-year-for-new-years-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133879","title":{"rendered":"Minnie Louise Haskins\u2019 on \u201cthe gate of the year\u201d\u00a0for New Year&#8217;s Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/lsehistory\/2013\/12\/10\/the-gate-of-the-year-minnie-louise-haskins-1875-1957\/\">there<\/a>: <blockquote>And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:\n\n\u2018Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.\u2019\n\nAnd he replied:\n\n\u2018Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.\u2019\n\nSo I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.<\/blockquote><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy New Year from Tokyo &#x1f386; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TK4z3h6KV4\">pic.twitter.com\/TK4z3h6KV4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pictures (@piitures) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piitures\/status\/1477038257972125707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: \u2018Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.\u2019 And he replied: \u2018Go out into the darkness and put your hand<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133879\">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":[113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133879","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=133879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133881,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133879\/revisions\/133881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}