{"id":47,"date":"2014-10-24T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:26:16","slug":"as-if-to-demonstrate-an-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;As if to Demonstrate an Eclipse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite poems is by Billy Collins, entitled, &#8220;As if to Demonstrate an Eclipse.&#8221; Yesterday I witnessed a partial eclipse through smoked glasses. The sun and moon are very different sizes, but the moon almost perfectly covers the sun during a total eclipse. This could well be a coincidence, as modern science assumes without evidence. But it might also be a hint&#8211;a wink from beyond&#8211;that the current arrangement of things is not random; that the phrase from Genisis 1:16, &#8220;the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night,&#8221; might have more behind it than mere myth and metaphor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite poems is by Billy Collins, entitled, &#8220;As if to Demonstrate an Eclipse.&#8221; Yesterday I witnessed a partial eclipse through smoked glasses. The sun and moon are very different sizes, but the moon almost perfectly covers the sun during a total eclipse. This could well be a coincidence, as modern science assumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}