{"id":5527,"date":"2010-07-18T06:56:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:49:21","slug":"morning-has-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/07\/morning-has-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning has broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul10\/IMG_2563B.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jul10\/IMG_2563BW.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"650\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 650px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Morning has broken, like the first morning<br \/>\nBlackbird has spoken, like the first bird<br \/>\nPraise for the singing, praise for the morning<br \/>\nPraise for the springing fresh from the word<\/p>\n<p>Sweet the rain&#8217;s new fall, sunlit from heaven<br \/>\nLike the first dewfall, on the first grass<br \/>\nPraise for the sweetness of the wet garden<br \/>\nSprung in completeness where his feet pass<\/p>\n<p>Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning<br \/>\nBorn of the one light, Eden saw play<br \/>\nPraise with elation, praise every morning<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s recreation of the new day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon, 1931<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Spacer65050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><br \/>\nThe melody familiar to me for these lyrics is the Cat Stevens version circa early 70&#8217;s I think.  It is in fact a vintage Christian hymn.  Eleanor Farjeon was a writer and poet, most often described as a storyteller. <\/p>\n<p>Photo taken July 16, 2010 &#8211; sunrise through my woods.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the word Sweet the rain&#8217;s new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-spirituality"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21791,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}