{"id":145029,"date":"2026-05-07T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145029"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:21:18","slug":"more-poetry-for-easter-les-murrays-easter-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145029","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry for Easter\u2013Les Murray\u2019s Easter 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we saw human dignity<br>healing humans in the middle of the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we moved in on him slowly<br>under the incalculable gravity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of old freedom, of our own freedom,<br>under atmospheres of consequence, of justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>under which no one needs to thank anyone.<br>If this was God, we would get even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the end we nailed him,<br>lashed, spittled, stretched him limb from limb\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1517.org\/podcast-overview\/2020-10-19\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Easter from Michelangelo&#39;s Risen Christ at Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The Lord is Risen indeed! Alleluia! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oVYseq4KZh\">pic.twitter.com\/oVYseq4KZh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Edoardo Fanfani (@EdoardoFanfani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdoardoFanfani\/status\/1644799060577058818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we saw human dignityhealing humans in the middle of the day we moved in on him slowlyunder the incalculable gravity of old freedom, of our own freedom,under atmospheres of consequence, of justice under which no one needs to thank<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=145029\">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":[571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145029","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=145029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145030,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145029\/revisions\/145030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}