{"id":2651,"date":"2023-11-21T20:47:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2023-11-21T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:47:32","slug":"evensong-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2651","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 58"},"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_20231121_154613-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231121_154613-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What about the people who keep their mouths shut when they hear lies? Does their silence give consent? This psalmist says that, yes, the quiet ones are just as wicked as the liars themselves.<br><br>And what about the whole lot of them? The psalmist compares this pack of liars to a big ol\u2019 sack of shifting and coiling snakes, to cobras that can\u2019t be controlled by even the best snake charmer.<br><br>The poet asks YHWH to foil the deeds of liars, and to destroy them in fires, so good people will shake their heads and say, \u201cCrime doesn&#8217;t pay,\u201d then add with a nod, \u201cYes, there really is a god.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What about the people who keep their mouths shut when they hear lies? Does their silence give consent? This psalmist says that, yes, the quiet ones are just as wicked as the liars themselves. And what about the whole lot of them? The psalmist compares this pack of liars to a big ol\u2019 sack of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 58<\/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-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}