{"id":1760,"date":"2025-05-08T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:42:49","slug":"cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was not the remains<\/span><\/p>\n

of the men that\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

died in the Alamo,<\/span><\/p>\n

the lit candles,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the likeness of<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope John Paul,<\/span><\/p>\n

or the warmth in<\/span><\/p>\n

the cathedral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not the sun<\/span><\/p>\n

after days of rain,<\/span><\/p>\n

the yellow flowers,<\/span><\/p>\n

or the girl in the<\/span><\/p>\n

white dress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was not even<\/span><\/p>\n

the two men<\/span><\/p>\n

drinking beer in<\/span><\/p>\n

the plaza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the nun<\/span><\/p>\n

standing some<\/span><\/p>\n

distance from\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the wedding party<\/span><\/p>\n

with a smile on<\/span><\/p>\n

her face.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was<\/span><\/p>\n

the monarch\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

butterfly in the<\/span><\/p>\n

yellow flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the men\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

that stopped\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

putting the lights\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in the oak tree to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

let us pass under\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

it to our car.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I opened a\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

plastic bottle of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

water and I had to smile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was not the remains of the men that\u00a0 died in the Alamo, the lit candles,\u00a0 the likeness of Pope John Paul, or the warmth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}