{"id":2646,"date":"2023-11-21T00:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2023-11-21T20:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:52:56","slug":"evensong-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 57"},"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_20231120_191012-1023x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231120_191012-1023x1024.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231120_191012-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231120_191012-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231120_191012-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231120_191012.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What did young David mean when he said, \u201cI lie among the sons of men \/ Who are set on fire, \/ Whose teeth are spears and arrows, \/ And their tongue a sharp sword\u201d? Are we to interpret that literally? Or was David \u2014 unlike his contemporaries \u2014 given to abstract thought? Why was he lying with other men? And why was he thinking about their teeth and tongues? Was he awake?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, actually he did say, \u201cAwake, my glory! \/ Awake, lute and harp!\u201d Whatever was going on, he felt like singing. Does that mean David was woke? No, this short psalm is like so many others \u2014 not in length, but in subject matter \u2014 in which the singer obsesses over his enemies, and David prays that YHWH will trap them as they try to trap him with their Jungian nets and Freudian pits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did young David mean when he said, \u201cI lie among the sons of men \/ Who are set on fire, \/ Whose teeth are spears and arrows, \/ And their tongue a sharp sword\u201d? Are we to interpret that literally? Or was David \u2014 unlike his contemporaries \u2014 given to abstract thought? Why was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 57<\/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-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","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=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}