{"id":8405,"date":"2026-01-26T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8405"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:46:12","slug":"by-another-way-by-jan-l-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=8405","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;By Another Way,&#8221; by Jan L. Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This poem was read at the opening of worship at Durham Friends Meeting on January 25, 2026.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"721\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-10.38.28-AM-721x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-10.38.28-AM-721x1024.png 721w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-10.38.28-AM-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-10.38.28-AM-768x1091.png 768w, https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-26-at-10.38.28-AM.png 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From Jan L. Richardson, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanctuaryofwomen.com\/WomensChristmasRetreat2013.pdf\">The Map You Make Yourself; A Blessing for Women&#8217;s Christmas<\/a>, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was read at the opening of worship at Durham Friends Meeting on January 25, 2026. From Jan L. Richardson, The Map You Make Yourself; A Blessing for Women&#8217;s Christmas, 2013.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-2bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}