{"id":276,"date":"2024-04-08T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/?p=276"},"modified":"2024-04-15T23:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T23:28:30","slug":"nekyian-arkhe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/nekyian-arkhe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nekyian Arkh\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This piece has appeared in\u00a0<em>Outrageous Fortune<\/em>\u00a0and can be viewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.marybaldwin.edu\/outrageousfortune\/current-issue-volume-13-0\/poetry-13-0\/lauren-girod\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">I asked a god to give me a sign &#8211;<br>had one heard me I would recognize.<br>Alone I had to stand trial to the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Submerged my prayers to a greater design:<br>an experiment in wisdom exorcized.<br>I asked a god to give me a sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Apocalyptic rebirth scorned an earthen shrine,<br>no stone unturned to be sterilized.<br>Alone I had to stand trial to the divine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">with a greater fear to which I resign<br>my status in life. For one but to be paralyzed<br>as I asked a god to give me a sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Ruinous justice held high thine<br>words clenched in a jaw to be memorized.<br>Alone I had to stand trial to the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Seraphim above malign<br>in a space where man once prophesied.<br>Once I asked a god to give me a sign&#8211;<br>I alone had to stand trial to the divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece has appeared in\u00a0Outrageous Fortune\u00a0and can be viewed\u00a0here. I asked a god to give me a sign &#8211;had one heard me I would recognize.Alone I had to stand trial to the divine. Submerged my prayers to a greater design:an experiment in wisdom exorcized.I asked a god to give me a sign. Apocalyptic rebirth scorned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4779,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-works"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/wcp-laurengirod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}