{"id":144262,"date":"2026-03-31T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144262"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:25:57","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-john-donne-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144262","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of John Donne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, the root and fountain of all being: Open our eyes to see, with thy servant John Donne, that whatsoever hath any being is a mirror in which we may behold thee; 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\">\u201cThen, as my soul to heaven, her first seat, takes flight,<br>And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell,<br>So fall my sins, that all may have their right,<br>To where they\u2019are bred, and would press me, to hell&#8230;\u201d<br>John Donne, died 31 March 1631<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/johndonne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#johndonne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/poem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#poem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/quP2lXIVW3\">pic.twitter.com\/quP2lXIVW3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peter Parker (@PParkerWriting) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PParkerWriting\/status\/2038913822593892646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, the root and fountain of all being: Open our eyes to see, with thy servant John Donne, that whatsoever hath any being is a mirror in which we may behold thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144262\">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":[186,324,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262","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=144262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144264,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262\/revisions\/144264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}