{"id":119,"date":"2016-12-25T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2022-12-27T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:41:30","slug":"night-at-the-ohel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=119","title":{"rendered":"Night at the Ohel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face emerges,<br \/>\nbulging black bag slung over his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>I remember him from the 6:15am morning prayer service<br \/>\na decade earlier, before I married and fled Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy oak door closes me inside with my Rebbe.<br \/>\nI have tied my minutes and hours to raising souls, I whisper.<\/p>\n<p>And what time is left for me?<\/p>\n<p>The man returns with a rake<br \/>\nand climbs into the soaking torn letters, knee deep.<\/p>\n<p>He gathers thousands of pleas for healing<br \/>\nthat conceal a bed of glistening white rocks.<\/p>\n<p>How much does G-d pay a man<br \/>\nto stuff prayers into a sack and bury them?<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/?page_id=61\">back to Poetry<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A familiar face emerges, bulging black bag slung over his shoulder. I remember him from the 6:15am morning prayer service a decade earlier, before I married and fled Brooklyn. The heavy oak door closes me inside with my Rebbe. I have tied my minutes and hours to raising souls, I whisper. And what time is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordiner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}