{"id":56801,"date":"2025-09-10T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=56801"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T23:21:32","slug":"the-sun-pours-down-like-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=56801","title":{"rendered":"The Sun Pours Down Like Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers

- Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Our Lady of the Harbor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Elder G<\/strong>, is life impossible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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If we take it literally\u2014no, life isn\u2019t impossible. It\u2019s astonishingly improbable, maybe even miraculous, but here we are: carbon and stardust arranged in just the right way to sing, think, love, and even worry about questions like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you mean it more existentially<\/strong> \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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There\u2019s also the paradox: things that seem impossible (whales rebounding, peace after war, people surviving loss) do happen. Life has a strange way of breaking through the \u201cimpossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And the sun pours down like honeyOn our lady of the harbourAnd she shows you where to lookAmong the garbage and the flowers- Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen Our Lady of the Harbor Elder G, is life impossible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopeful-songs-on-dismal-days"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56820,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56801\/revisions\/56820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}