The voice I hear this passing night was heard
\nIn ancient days by emperor and clown:
\nPerhaps the self-same song that found a path
\nThrough the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
\nShe stood in tears amid the alien corn;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think often of Keats' image of Ruth when I think of the journeys to foreign lands that my parents -- and I -- have made, when we too have been \"sick for home, ... [standing] in tears amid the alien corn.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of my favorite books in the Bible is the Book of Ruth. \u00c2\u00a0Laura and I read it to each other last night through the inevitable tears that spring from me when I contemplate the story of family devotion and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","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":[66,23,27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-finding-my-roots","category-my-past","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I6qs-eR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}