{"id":660,"date":"2017-01-05T00:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:40:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T07:40:47","slug":"senate-prayer-for-the-roll-call-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Senate Prayer for the Roll Call Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>All votes in the Senate are by roll call in alphabetical order. A senator may pass on the first call but must respond by the second. No senator may leave the chamber once a roll call has been started.<\/em><br \/>\nDear God,<br \/>\nLet not the softness of my \u201cAye\u201d<br \/>\nNor the harshness of my \u201cNay\u201d<br \/>\nHide the shades of gray<br \/>\nI see in a<br \/>\nBinary vote.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<br \/>\nLet my resolve not soften<br \/>\nAs I listen to debate<br \/>\nBut keep me aware<br \/>\nOf my place in space<br \/>\nAnd time.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<br \/>\nLet not the surprising vote<br \/>\nIn the early alphabet<br \/>\nShudder my sense of truth.<br \/>\nDecision is mine alone<br \/>\nFor all.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<br \/>\nLet me not take comfort<br \/>\nAs the count piles high<br \/>\nThe side I am on<br \/>\nOr the folly that my vote<br \/>\nHas no meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God,<br \/>\nThe roll is the truth telling we<br \/>\nSo often avoid; done too often<br \/>\nWe may find ease with<br \/>\nThe act of judgement<br \/>\nAnd lose compassion.<\/p>\n<p>20 Feb 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All votes in the Senate are by roll call in alphabetical order. A senator may pass on the first call but must respond by the second. No senator may leave the chamber once a roll call has been started. Dear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/?p=660\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danschmidtforsenate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}