{"id":6556,"date":"2011-06-07T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:33","slug":"lovely-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/06\/07\/lovely-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Blessing the boats<\/strong>\t  <\/p>\n<p>(at St. Mary&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p>may the tide<br \/>\nthat is entering even now<br \/>\nthe lip of our understanding<br \/>\ncarry you out<br \/>\nbeyond the face of fear<br \/>\nmay you kiss<br \/>\nthe wind then turn from it<br \/>\ncertain that it will<br \/>\nlove your back    may you<br \/>\nopen your eyes to water<br \/>\nwater waving forever<br \/>\nand may you in your innocence<br \/>\nsail through this to that<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/79\">Lucille Clifton<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessing the boats (at St. Mary&#8217;s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,28,215,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-humanities","category-poetry","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}