{"id":1924,"date":"2017-04-05T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:53:59","slug":"is-this-what-you-were-called-to-still-pilgrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/is-this-what-you-were-called-to-still-pilgrim\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIs this what you were called to, Still Pilgrim?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen as poet Angela Alaimo O&#8217;Donnell talks about the inspiration for her newest book, <em>Still Pilgrim<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/8647\/still-pilgrim.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/8647.jpg\" alt=\"8647\" width=\"224\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Still Pilgrim&#8217;s history consists of flashes of joy and visitations of sorrow, engagement with saints and with artists (the Pilgrim&#8217;s personal patron saints), epiphanies sparked by words and songs and stories, revelations triggered by encounters with beauty and terror. The gentle reader who perseveres through these poems is no longer merely a reader\u2014he or she is a partner in pilgrimage and a friend. These poems have become your poems, this story your story, bespeaking our (un)common beginnings and our equally (un)common end.\u201d \u2014 Angela Alaimo O&#8217;Donnell, from the Afterword<\/p>\n<p>Videographer:\u00a0David De La Fuente<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Still Pilgrim\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4Ioz05ukso?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Still Pilgrim Celebrates Spring\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPliQC4l0-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen as poet Angela Alaimo O&#8217;Donnell talks about the inspiration for her newest book, Still Pilgrim. \u201cThe Still Pilgrim&#8217;s history consists of flashes of joy and visitations of sorrow, engagement with saints and with artists (the Pilgrim&#8217;s personal patron saints), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/is-this-what-you-were-called-to-still-pilgrim\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}