{"id":142447,"date":"2026-01-07T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142447"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:24:19","slug":"more-poetry-for-epiphany-malcolm-guite-the-magi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142447","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry for Epiphany\u2013Malcolm Guite: The Magi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It might have been just someone else\u2019s story,<br>Some chosen people get a special king.<br>We leave them to their own peculiar glory,<br>We don\u2019t belong, it doesn\u2019t mean a thing.<br>But when these three arrive they bring us with them\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmguite.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/04\/a-first-sonnet-for-epiphany\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, &#39;Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage&#39;&#39;<br>Matthew 2: 1-3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Epiphany?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Epiphany<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8wd3Dg7lQ6\">pic.twitter.com\/8wd3Dg7lQ6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wabbey\/status\/2008624249120993581?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>It might have been just someone else\u2019s story,Some chosen people get a special king.We leave them to their own peculiar glory,We don\u2019t belong, it doesn\u2019t mean a thing.But when these three arrive they bring us with them\u2026. Read it all.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142447\">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-142447","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\/142447","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=142447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142452,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142447\/revisions\/142452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}