{"id":18239,"date":"2018-06-28T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=18239"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T19:27:20","slug":"boxers-saints-homestretch-haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/boxers-saints-homestretch-haikus\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxers &amp; Saints: Homestretch Haikus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/opera-gods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18237\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/opera-gods-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/opera-gods-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/opera-gods-150x226.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/opera-gods.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Boxers<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bean garden revenge<\/p>\n<p>Op\u2019ra gods fear foreign devils<\/p>\n<p>Storied people lost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18238\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-768x1059.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-150x207.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc-300x414.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Albert_Lynch_-_Jeanne_dArc.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Saints<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Named but confused faith<\/p>\n<p>St Joan guides and inspires her<\/p>\n<p>Sacrificed, she saves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Epilogue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than religion<\/p>\n<p>Into church come thieves, murd\u2019rs<\/p>\n<p>To West-branded faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Gene Luen Yang, <em>Boxers<\/em> (New York: First Second, 2013).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Gene Luen Yang, <em>Saints<\/em> (New York: First Second, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Boxers[1] Bean garden revenge Op\u2019ra gods fear foreign devils Storied people lost. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Saints[2] Named but confused faith St Joan guides and inspires her Sacrificed, she saves. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Epilogue More than religion Into church come thieves, murd\u2019rs To West-branded faith. &nbsp; &nbsp; [1] Gene Luen Yang, Boxers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,878,1308,1273],"class_list":["post-18239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-haiku","tag-poetry","tag-sevens-finish-well","tag-yang","cohort-lgp7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18240,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18239\/revisions\/18240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}