{"id":17007,"date":"2024-12-05T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:25:21","slug":"poem-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/poem-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">TEACHER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019ve made a christ of you<br \/>\nthe way I gather up the crumbs<br \/>\nbeneath your table, the way I bathe<br \/>\nyour feet with my hair.<\/p>\n<p>But this blind worship<br \/>\nwon\u2019t do, and I must take and eat<br \/>\nnew prayer. Teacher! It was not given me<br \/>\nto sit at your right hand or your left.<\/p>\n<p>Thought you saw me under the fig tree,<br \/>\nbut it was just a trick of the light<br \/>\ncleft between branches.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading mw-first-heading\"><em><span class=\"mw-page-title-main\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Feature Image: Pasquale de&#8217; Rossi:School Teaching, a Teacher with Four Pupils c. 1700.<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEACHER I know I\u2019ve made a christ of you the way I gather up the crumbs beneath your table, the way I bathe your feet with my hair. But this blind worship won\u2019t do, and I must take and eat new prayer. Teacher! It was not given me to sit at your right hand or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":17117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3937,3942,3949,3950,3951,7320,7341,8875],"class_list":["post-17007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-haley-hodges","tag-haley-hodges-cassandra-voices","tag-haley-hodges-poem","tag-haley-hodges-poet","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}