{"id":765,"date":"2014-11-16T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/monks-prayerat-the-monastic-centeris-always-a-cloisteran-orchestrated-empti\/"},"modified":"2014-11-16T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T13:15:18","slug":"monks-prayerat-the-monastic-centeris-always-a-cloisteran-orchestrated-empti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/monks-prayerat-the-monastic-centeris-always-a-cloisteran-orchestrated-empti\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk&#039;s Prayer:\nAt the monastic center\nis always a cloister\nan orchestrated empti&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monk##039;s Prayer:<br \/> At the monastic center<br \/> is always a cloister<br \/> an orchestrated emptiness,<br \/> a place of light,<br \/> a fountain to feed<br \/> the heart##039;s garden.<\/p>\n<p> Give me this life:<br \/> a center empty<br \/> of all but light,<br \/> the stillness of Eden<br \/> before fruit was plucked,<br \/> my heart a spring<br \/> of living water.<br \/> \u2014 Bonnie Thurston<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/paracletepress\/photos\/a.10150684800182328.407590.141915492327\/10152878401277328\/?type=1#amp;relevant_count=1\" title=\"\" target=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xap1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s130x130\/10298857_10152878401277328_6157523773558797082_n.jpg?oh=5d9af81f12c594f04ad92e46a11b95bc#amp;oe=54D6279D#amp;__gda__=1427744806_d918fb6062c08448bd67181444028669\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/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>Monk##039;s Prayer: At the monastic center is always a cloister an orchestrated emptiness, a place of light, a fountain to feed the heart##039;s garden. Give me this life: a center empty of all but light, the stillness of Eden before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/monks-prayerat-the-monastic-centeris-always-a-cloisteran-orchestrated-empti\/\">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":"1","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-765","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\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}