{"id":1137,"date":"2018-08-04T12:17:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T12:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:09:01","slug":"why-i-wake-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/04\/why-i-wake-early\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why I Wake Early&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1813.jpg 487w, https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1813-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cWhy I Wake Early\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHello, sun in my face.<br \/>\nHello, you who made the morning<br \/>\nand spread it over the fields<br \/>\nand into the faces of the tulips<br \/>\nand the nodding morning glories,<br \/>\nand into the windows of, even, the<br \/>\nmiserable and the crotchety \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">best preacher that ever was,<br \/>\ndear star, that just happens<br \/>\nto be where you are in the universe<br \/>\nto keep us from ever-darkness,<br \/>\nto ease us with warm touching,<br \/>\nto hold us in the great hands of light \u2013<br \/>\ngood morning, good morning, good morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watch, now, how I start the day<br \/>\nin happiness, in kindness.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/23988.Mary_Oliver\"><strong>Mary Oliver<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy I Wake Early\u00a0 Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety \u2013 best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.judithdhenry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}