{"id":13101,"date":"2019-11-26T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13101"},"modified":"2019-11-26T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:41:20","slug":"longing-to-know-and-be-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13101","title":{"rendered":"Longing to Know and Be Known"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth Harwell  says Wendell Berry wounded her be reminding her how often she has moved around. <a href=\"https:\/\/rabbitroom.com\/2019\/11\/a-table-for-us\/\">She feels temporary<\/a>, and that&#8217;s not how she grew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Because when memory calls me back to my childhood, I know that land. I can feel that grass under my feet. I know its broad green blades: fat-bottomed and rising to a rounded point. In my mind, I can split the blades into two pieces and I can remember the way the hanging fibers felt on my lips. I know the yellow dandelion blooms\u2014and not only as a whole, but also, more clearly even, in its parts. I know the feel of the dandelion\u2019s soft petals on the tip of my nose and the mustard-yellow streaks it would leave when I rubbed it across my palm. I can see its hosts of aphids working their way up the stems in crowded lines. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In truth, we do not have homes here; Christ has gone to make a home for us somewhere else, but he has left a well-stocked table for us here to remember him and all of the church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Our place is coming,&#8221; she says, &#8220;our people are here.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@valentina_locatelli?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Valentina Locatelli<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/home-yard?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Harwell says Wendell Berry wounded her be reminding her how often she has moved around. She feels temporary, and that&#8217;s not how she grew up. Because when memory calls me back to my childhood, I know that land. I can feel that grass under my feet. I know its broad green blades: fat-bottomed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longing to Know and Be Known<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[864,1213,1224,3317],"class_list":["post-13101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-elizabeth-harwell","tag-hiraeth","tag-home","tag-wendell-berry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}