{"id":2340,"date":"2012-04-17T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/17\/woman-of-letters\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:45:00","slug":"woman-of-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/17\/woman-of-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"woman of letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I wish the sequence of things<br \/>could have more closely<br \/>resembled the corpus of the Delft master\u2014<br \/>a series of moments of contemplation,<br \/>delicate with import.<br \/>framed by pale glow and white marble,<br \/>how could my days not have assumed a<br \/>mantle of meaning?<br \/>the sun flowing through the many diamond frames<br \/>would have illuminated my letters from<br \/>old friends and imagined beaus in warrens of anxiety.<br \/>and I would have penned responses of<br \/>hope and concern.<br \/>i would have understood their need,<br \/>and the sweep of my stone rooms,<br \/>suffused in the calm of northern light,<br \/>would have eradicated their epistolary woe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Insatiable Psalm<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yataub.net\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to learn more about the poetry of Yermiyahu Ahron Taub.<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by\u00a0Renate Evers, Leo Baeck Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub sometimes I wish the sequence of thingscould have more closelyresembled the corpus of the Delft master\u2014a series of moments of contemplation,delicate with import.framed by pale glow and white marble,how could my days not have assumed amantle of meaning?the sun flowing through the many diamond frameswould have illuminated my letters fromold friends and imagined beaus in warrens of anxiety.and I would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[962,1215],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-yermiyahu-ahron-taub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}