{"id":1593,"date":"2022-06-19T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulloflit.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2022-06-19T17:03:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T17:03:46","slug":"the-great-light-of-night-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"The Great Light of Night: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1593\" class=\"elementor elementor-1593\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f6d9ac2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f6d9ac2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-57f54d9\" data-id=\"57f54d9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ba70e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ba70e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>He made two great lights<\/p><p>and called night the lesser,<\/p><p>but we choose to embrace<\/p><p>the weight of day\u2019s heavier sister,<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>reserving day for all that\u2019s productive,<\/p><p>claiming surface fulfillment, but<\/p><p>letting the night be the one that\u2019s seductive,<\/p><p>saving what\u2019s real for when we cannot see.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The lesser light is for<\/p><p>making love and<\/p><p>praying to God above and<\/p><p>listening to the whisper of wings on a dove<\/p><p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and it\u2019s for<\/p><p>thinking deeply and<\/p><p>tiptoeing discreetly and<\/p><p>talking timidly and sweetly.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Although the depth of night<\/p><p>is anything but light,<\/p><p>we call it gentle<\/p><p>and its effect on us sentimental.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He made two great lights and called night the lesser, but we choose to embrace the weight of day\u2019s heavier sister, \u00a0 reserving day for all that\u2019s productive, claiming surface fulfillment, but letting the night be the one that\u2019s seductive, saving what\u2019s real for when we cannot see. \u00a0 The lesser light is for making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets","category-writingtips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}