{"id":5138,"date":"2021-08-19T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:26:04","slug":"we-wait-and-are-patient-and-back-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/we-wait-and-are-patient-and-back-we-come\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;We Wait, and are Patient, and Back We Come&#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Badger#content-collapsible-block-6\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20210525ff\/20210819-The_Wind_in_the_Willows-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\"><\/a>This is among my favorite quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;&#8230;Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230; &#8216;People come \u2014 they stay for a while, they build \u2014 and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I&#8217;ve been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We keep on going, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come&#8230;.'&#8221;<br \/>\n(From &#8220;Wind in the Willows,&#8221; Kenneth Grahame (1908))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is among my favorite quotes: &#8220;&#8216;&#8230;Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/we-wait-and-are-patient-and-back-we-come\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"An excerpt from The Wind in the Willows, IV. Mr. Badger. Kenneth Grahame (1908) illustration by Paul Bransom (1913)","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[52,27,74],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-culture","tag-history","tag-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-1kS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}