{"id":1588,"date":"2011-10-12T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2015-06-11T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T17:54:53","slug":"pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he Liturgy of the Hours runs through the psalms in a four-week cycle. Every fourth Wednesday at the hour of Vigils (a.k.a. Matins, or the Office of Readings) we pray Psalm 103.<\/p>\n

There’s one stanza that never fails to give me pause.<\/p>\n

\nAs for man, his days are like grass;
\nhe flowers <\/a>like the flower of the field;
\nthe wind blows and he is gone
\nand his place never sees him again.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here is where we will pause for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Liturgy of the Hours runs through the psalms in a four-week cycle. Every fourth Wednesday at the hour of Vigils (a.k.a. Matins, or the Office of Readings) we pray Psalm 103. There’s one stanza that never fails to give me pause. As for man, his days are like grass; he flowers like the flower of the field; the wind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-office","category-meditations","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1aGBK-pause","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86364,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-holy-innocents\/","url_meta":{"origin":1588,"position":0},"title":"The Holy Innocents","author":"Thom","date":"28 December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy fourth day of Christmas! 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