{"id":74010,"date":"2018-09-30T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74010"},"modified":"2018-09-30T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:43:33","slug":"a-poemwritten-by-archpriest-grigory-petrov-gregory-petrov-shortly-before-his-death-in-a-siberian-prison-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74010","title":{"rendered":"A poem written by Archpriest Grigory Petrov (Gregory Petrov) shortly before his death in a Siberian prison camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodox.net\/articles\/grigori-petroff-hieromartyr-poem.html\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is my praise before Thee?<\/p>\n<p>I have not heard the cherubim singing,<br \/>\n    that is the lot of souls sublime,<br \/>\n    but I know how nature praises thee.<\/p>\n<p>In winter I have thought about the whole earth praying quietly to Thee in the<br \/>\n    silence of the moon,<br \/>\n    wrapped around in a mantle of white,<br \/>\n    sparkling with diamonds of snow.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen how the rising sun rejoiced in Thee,<br \/>\n    and choirs of birds sang forth glory.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard how secretly the forest noises Thee abroad,<br \/>\n    how the winds sing,<br \/>\n    the waters gurgle,<br \/>\n    how the choirs of stars preach of Thee<br \/>\n    in serried motion through unending space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: What is my praise before Thee? I have not heard the cherubim singing, that is the lot of souls sublime, but I know how nature praises thee. In winter I have thought about the whole earth praying quietly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74010\">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":[183,113,102,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-poetry-literature","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74010","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=74010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74012,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74010\/revisions\/74012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}