{"id":113,"date":"2007-04-01T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/113"},"modified":"2007-04-01T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T21:08:05","slug":"the-donkey-for-palm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/113","title":{"rendered":"The Donkey, for Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like G. K. Chesterton on many levels. As a personality he was both deep and flambouyant (he was either an Enneagram 5 or a 4 with a strong wing of either of those). His classic work, <em>Orthodoxy<\/em> helped me define my theological center. This is one of my favorite poems of his, a playful perspective on Palm Sunday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/donkey.jpg' alt='donkey.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Donkey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When fishes flew and forests walked<br \/>\nAnd figs grew upon thorn,<br \/>\nSome moment when the moon was blood<br \/>\nThen surely I was born; <\/p>\n<p>With monstrous head and sickening cry<br \/>\nAnd ears like errant wings,<br \/>\nThe devil&#8217;s walking parody<br \/>\nOn all four-footed things. <\/p>\n<p>The tattered outlaw of the earth,<br \/>\nOf ancient crooked will;<br \/>\nStarve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,<br \/>\nI keep my secret still. <\/p>\n<p>Fools! For I also had my hour;<br \/>\nOne far fierce hour and sweet:<br \/>\nThere was a shout about my ears,<br \/>\nAnd palms before my feet.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;G. K. Chesterton<\/p>\n<p>(graphic by Israel Galindo)<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/oraetlabora1.png' alt='oraetlabora1.png' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like G. K. Chesterton on many levels. As a personality he was both deep and flambouyant (he was either an Enneagram 5 or a 4 with a strong wing of either of those). His classic work, Orthodoxy helped me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}