{"id":2607,"date":"2023-11-03T00:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2023-11-03T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:40:10","slug":"evensong-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2607","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 45"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-1023x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-1023x1024.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231102_203658-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, even 3,000 years ago, people were keeping up with the Kardashians, or the Kennedys, or, in this psalm\u2019s case, the King and his royal court. This \u201csong of love\u201d is so fawning that its writer couldn\u2019t say enough good stuff about the King, Queen and their kids \u2014 a Hebrew Robin Leach.<br><br>This hunky King \u2014 with his long sword and heart-piercing arrows \u2014 sits on his throne, gripping his huge scepter and wearing great-smelling duds. He lives in actual ivory palaces \u2014 more than one, no kidding \u2014 and other kings\u2019 daughters wait on him hand and foot. This dude has it made.<br><br>He has a hot queen who is loved by all the rich and famous in the land. Their beautiful daughter has the best clothes and the best friends. And the royal couple has many sons to help them rule the world. Champagne wishes and caviar dreams, indeed \u2014 with a supersized order of idolatry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, even 3,000 years ago, people were keeping up with the Kardashians, or the Kennedys, or, in this psalm\u2019s case, the King and his royal court. This \u201csong of love\u201d is so fawning that its writer couldn\u2019t say enough good stuff about the King, Queen and their kids \u2014 a Hebrew Robin Leach. This hunky &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 45<\/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-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}