{"id":2616,"date":"2023-11-07T23:12:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2023-11-07T23:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:12:20","slug":"evensong-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 48"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20200307_210226-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20200307_210226-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20200307_210226.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm is about a shining city on a hill, where the god of the people resides. It\u2019s talking about Jerusalem, of course, but this place could also be Washington, D.C., as was one old president\u2019s view, or maybe Sao Paulo or Timbuktu. Oh, I don\u2019t know. Are there hills in Brazil?<br><br>While I\u2019m at it, why do gods always prefer the mountains to the ocean? I mean, there\u2019s Mount Olympus, Mount Sinai, Mount Zion and Mount Rushmore. Also, Carmel, Moriah, Tabor and Horeb. Mount of Transfiguration, Mountain of Light, Machu Picchu and Gang Rinpoche, right?<br><br>And why do our gods need temples and palaces? Do we? I\u2019ve lived as a privileged hillbilly in a mountain cabin, and as a beach bum on the dole. I\u2019ve seen a little brown church in a vale and a solitary cross in the dunes. High country, low country, rich, poor \u2014 it\u2019s all the same to the iSoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm is about a shining city on a hill, where the god of the people resides. It\u2019s talking about Jerusalem, of course, but this place could also be Washington, D.C., as was one old president\u2019s view, or maybe Sao Paulo or Timbuktu. Oh, I don\u2019t know. Are there hills in Brazil? While I\u2019m at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 48<\/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-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}