{"id":2792,"date":"2011-04-01T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2011-04-01T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:23:55","slug":"we-need-more-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/04\/01\/we-need-more-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"we need more worlds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_2255 by pilgrimgirl, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/5531424562\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5053\/5531424562_d9a04e70ff.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2255\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Religious Consolation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by John Updike<\/p>\n<p>One size fits all. The shape or coloration<br \/>\nof the god or high heaven matters less<br \/>\nthan that there is one, somehow, somewhere, hearing<br \/>\nthe hasty prayer and chalking up the mite<br \/>\nthe widow brings to the temple, A child<br \/>\nalone with horrid verities cries out<br \/>\nfor there to be a limit, a warm wall<br \/>\nwhose stones give back an answer, however faint.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, the extravagance of it\u2014who needs<br \/>\nthose eighteen-armed black Kalis, those musty saints<br \/>\nwhose bones and bleeding wounds appall good taste,<br \/>\nthose joss sticks, houris, gilded Buddhas, books<br \/>\nMoroni etched in tedious detail?<br \/>\nWe do; we need more worlds. This one will fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Consolation by John Updike One size fits all. The shape or coloration of the god or high heaven matters less than that there is one, somehow, somewhere, hearing the hasty prayer and chalking up the mite the widow brings to the temple, A child alone with horrid verities cries out for there to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-songspoetry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>we need more worlds... - PilgrimSteps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/04\/01\/we-need-more-worlds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"we need more worlds... - PilgrimSteps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Religious Consolation by John Updike One size fits all. 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