{"id":65663,"date":"2017-11-23T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65663"},"modified":"2017-11-23T17:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:52:29","slug":"ch-john-donne-thanksgiving-in-the-midst-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65663","title":{"rendered":"(CH) John Donne&#8211;Thanksgiving in the Midst of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to &#8220;the guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne&#8217;s] darkest days.&#8221; They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, &#8220;In the midst of plague times, how can we give thanks?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the three poems excerpted by Yancey, with his clarifying revisions of Donne&#8217;s eighteenth-century language&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/2008\/august\/thanksgiving-in-midst-of-fear.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTDLDN?src=hash\">#OTDLDN<\/a> 1631 John Donne, metaphysical poet &amp; Dean <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StPaulsLondon\">@StPaulsLondon<\/a>, died. &#8216;No man is an Island, entire of itself&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WEO57Grd3I\">pic.twitter.com\/WEO57Grd3I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 London Town Tours (@TownTours) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TownTours\/status\/715419667280560128\">March 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to &#8220;the guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne&#8217;s] darkest days.&#8221; They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, &#8220;In the midst of plague times, how can we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65663\">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":[186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663","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=65663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91132,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions\/91132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}