{"id":2553,"date":"2023-10-11T02:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2023-10-11T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T02:57:10","slug":"evensong-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231010_225407-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalmist should have lived to hear Garth Brooks sing about unanswered prayers, even though this song is about something else \u2014 not the loss of an old flame, but the loss of the fire within, or life itself.<br><br>This psalm specifically mentions people who say one thing, then do the very opposite, as in speaking out for peace and then going to war. The psalmist says his \u201cLord\u201d will see what\u2019s going on and will \u201cdestroy them \/ And not build them up,\u201d not in some far-off heaven, but here and now on earth.<br><br>Maybe I\u2019m looking at this the wrong way, but is that what\u2019s happening in Ukraine? In the Middle East? In Africa? In Central and South America? If it is, then somebody\u2019s got a whole lot of catching up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalmist should have lived to hear Garth Brooks sing about unanswered prayers, even though this song is about something else \u2014 not the loss of an old flame, but the loss of the fire within, or life itself. This psalm specifically mentions people who say one thing, then do the very opposite, as in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}