{"id":135239,"date":"2025-02-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135239"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T12:20:33","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-george-herbert-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135239","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of George Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our God and King, who didst call thy servant George Herbert from the pursuit of worldly honors to be a pastor of souls, a poet, and a priest in thy temple: Give unto us the grace, we beseech thee, joyfully to perform the tasks thou givest us to do, knowing that nothing is menial or common that is done for thy sake; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today we remember George Herbert (1593-1633), a poet and priest of the Church of England. \u2018The Temple\u2019 is a book of poems written by Herbert. His poems explore religion and spirituality, and make interesting use of the book as a form.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LambethPalaceLibrary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LambethPalaceLibrary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EasterWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EasterWings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Printed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Printed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/50RnN9ebza\">pic.twitter.com\/50RnN9ebza<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LambethPalaceLibrary (@lampallib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lampallib\/status\/1895077352134017276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our God and King, who didst call thy servant George Herbert from the pursuit of worldly honors to be a pastor of souls, a poet, and a priest in thy temple: Give unto us the grace, we beseech thee, joyfully<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135239\">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":[186,113,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-poetry-literature","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135239","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=135239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135245,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135239\/revisions\/135245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}