{"id":21047,"date":"2013-02-06T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/06\/faith-grows\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:24:37","slug":"faith-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/06\/faith-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"faith grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/asthewhitecrowflies.tumblr.com\/post\/42436338971\/faith-grows\">asthewhitecrowflies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>when next my mother asks me,<br \/> leaning close with cool tea breath and<br \/> garden dirt beneath her nails,<br \/> if I believe in god<\/p>\n<p>I can say,<br \/> yes.<\/p>\n<p>it will bring her such comfort, my<br \/> mother, who loves her acned cucumbers<br \/> and her tart pink strawberries.<\/p>\n<p>I will say,<br \/> yes,<br \/> for god is the unknown.<br \/> god is always bigger than the scope of<br \/> human knowledge; the unknown<br \/> is bigger than what we imaginatively<br \/> harvest,<\/p>\n<p>discovery after discovery, science<br \/> after disproven science.<br \/> god is possibility.<br \/> god is hope, god is imagination,<br \/> god is dreams and god is love.<\/p>\n<p>for none of these things are known,<br \/> and so they fall to god,<br \/> like god always falls and rises again<br \/> more mysterious and impossible than before.<\/p>\n<p>when we pray, we whisper<br \/> our hopes into the void,<br \/> not knowing if they will flower.<\/p>\n<p>my mother will smile with carrot-stained<br \/> teeth,<br \/> and we will say,<br \/> yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asthewhitecrowflies: when next my mother asks me, leaning close with cool tea breath and garden dirt beneath her nails, if I believe in god I can say, yes. it will bring her such comfort, my mother, who loves her acned cucumbers and her tart pink strawberries. I will say, yes, for god is the unknown. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/06\/faith-grows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;faith grows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[6036],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-august-dabbles-in-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}