{"id":142420,"date":"2026-01-06T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142420"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:44:15","slug":"epiphany-by-john-goodman-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142420","title":{"rendered":"Epiphany by John Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How could they have known not to come<br>On what amounted to pretense? Everything<br>Their learning held, all their beliefs<br>Said regal gifts were needful for a king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The things they brought were left behind,<br>Doubtless; or maybe traded for bread:<br>Impecunious Joseph with a family<br>To feed, a roof to put over his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120205215148\/http:\/\/adventbirmingham.org\/poetry\/blast-from-the-past\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three kings from the East arrive to worship the Christchild and offer their gifts in 15th Century glass at East Harling, Norfolk. Today&#39;s the feast of the Epiphany.<br><br>East Harling: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YVpgapIP2A\">https:\/\/t.co\/YVpgapIP2A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LYUqWzj1m0\">pic.twitter.com\/LYUqWzj1m0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Simon Knott (@SimoninSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimoninSuffolk\/status\/2008434148277641342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could they have known not to comeOn what amounted to pretense? EverythingTheir learning held, all their beliefsSaid regal gifts were needful for a king. The things they brought were left behind,Doubtless; or maybe traded for bread:Impecunious Joseph with a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142420\">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":[568,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epiphany","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142420","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=142420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142423,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142420\/revisions\/142423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}