{"id":2572,"date":"2002-06-27T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2002-06-27T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2002-06-27T12:09:58","slug":"prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"PRAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late <a href=http:\/\/www.catch22.com\/~espana\/SFAuthors\/SFZ\/Zelazny,Roger.php3 target=\u0094browser\u0094>Roger Zelazny<\/a> was a terrific writer (note that I don&#8217;t ghettoize him by calling him a terrific SF writer). In one of his books, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380011220\/armedliberal-20\">Creatures of Light and Darkness<\/a>, he offers the definitive prayer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I<br \/>\nsay, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have<br \/>\ndone or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not<br \/>\nforgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible<br \/>\nbenefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I<br \/>\nask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may<br \/>\nbe, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in<br \/>\nmy capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may<br \/>\nnot be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your<br \/>\nreceiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and<br \/>\nwhich may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says it all, don\u0092tcha think\u0085<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Roger Zelazny was a terrific writer (note that I don&#8217;t ghettoize him by calling him a terrific SF writer). In one of his books, Creatures of Light and Darkness, he offers the definitive prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}