{"id":91133,"date":"2020-03-31T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91133"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:20:17","slug":"ch-john-donne-thanksgiving-in-the-midst-of-fear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91133","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\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreInThisTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreInThisTogether<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any man\u2019s death diminishes me,<br \/>\nbecause I am involved in mankind;<br \/>\nand therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;<br \/>\nit tolls for thee.<\/p>\n<p>John Donne 1572-1631 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/75N1Yoe5Rm\">pic.twitter.com\/75N1Yoe5Rm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas J. Ordinans (@Nowanoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nowanoz\/status\/1243326001888636928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/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=91133\">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":[186,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91133","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=91133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91135,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91133\/revisions\/91135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}