{"id":232,"date":"2022-06-24T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:59:15","slug":"a-prayer-to-st-christopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to St. Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am assured<br>this is the glade I will<br>wade through in order to be human<br>again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And you know there is dry land on the other side?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, no.<br>There is a promise<br>of rest, and I am hoping<br>to one day believe<br>in the promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Then how do you cross?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For today, there is the sky above<br>and a lark<br>perched on my shoulder,<br>singing<br>me<br>on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/dave-hoefler-hq-UYUC-ZY8-unsplash.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am assuredthis is the glade I willwade through in order to be humanagain. And you know there is dry land on the other side? Well, no.There is a promiseof rest, and I am hopingto one day believein the promise. Then how do you cross? For today, there is the sky aboveand a larkperched on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pelican","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mallorynygard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}