{"id":2613,"date":"2023-11-07T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2023-11-07T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T01:23:05","slug":"evensong-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 47"},"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\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231027_170527-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Can one group of people be &#8220;chosen&#8221; over all others? Really? You mean, certain people are favored over everyone else on earth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I know. One group says so \u2014 or, rather, two groups do, with the latter being one nation and the former being a single creed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what does history say? Is there evidence (besides their own claims) that &#8220;the shields of the earth belong to [only their] God&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case \u2014 as we&#8217;re often told \u2014 then how do they explain so much suffering and so much death? Are their shields still up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can one group of people be &#8220;chosen&#8221; over all others? Really? You mean, certain people are favored over everyone else on earth? Yeah, I know. One group says so \u2014 or, rather, two groups do, with the latter being one nation and the former being a single creed. But what does history say? Is there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 47<\/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-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}