{"id":639,"date":"2015-01-07T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=639"},"modified":"2015-06-30T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:48:32","slug":"poem-of-the-month-january-difficult-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, January 2015: Difficult Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DIFFICULT CALLS<\/p>\n<p>Amida knows how difficult<br \/>\nrecital of the Name can be.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why his followers are told<br \/>\njust one nembutsu is enough.<\/p>\n<p>My Namo Amida Butsu,<br \/>\nhowever grudgingly expressed,<br \/>\nleaves our unhappy world behind<br \/>\nat many times the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>No matter when or where or how<br \/>\nI lift my heart to say these words,<br \/>\nAmida listens to the call<br \/>\nand opens wide his Pure Land gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIFFICULT CALLS Amida knows how difficult recital of the Name can be. That&#8217;s why his followers are told just one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}