{"id":1175,"date":"2005-04-22T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/04\/22\/saint-francis-and-the-sow\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T14:47:38","slug":"saint-francis-and-the-sow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/04\/22\/saint-francis-and-the-sow\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Francis and the Sow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a999'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ran across this recently and really liked it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saint Francis and the Sow&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; by Galway Kinnell<\/p>\n<p>The bud<br \/>\nstands for all things,<br \/>\neven for those things that don&#8217;t flower,<br \/>\nfor everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;<br \/>\nthough sometimes it is necessary<br \/>\nto re-teach a thing its loveliness,<br \/>\nto put a hand on its brow<br \/>\nof the flower<br \/>\nand retell it in words and in touch<br \/>\nit is lovely<br \/>\nuntil it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;<br \/>\nas Saint Francis<br \/>\nput his hand on the creased forehead<br \/>\nof the sow, and told her in words and in touch<br \/>\nblessings of the earth on the sow, and the sow<br \/>\nbegan remembering all down her thick length,<br \/>\nfrom the earthen snout all the way<br \/>\nthrough the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail,<br \/>\nfrom the hard spininess spiked out from the spine<br \/>\ndown through the great broken heart<br \/>\nto the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering<br \/>\nfrom the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:<br \/>\nthe long, perfect loveliness of sow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this recently and really liked it. &#8220;Saint Francis and the Sow&#8221; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; by Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don&#8217;t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to re-teach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evrything-but-the-sink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-iX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}