{"id":2662,"date":"2023-11-25T00:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T00:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2023-11-25T00:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T00:43:46","slug":"evensong-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 61"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231124_194004-1025x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231124_194004-1025x721.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231124_194004-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231124_194004-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231124_194004.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Old Hebrew psalmist defines divine favor as a quid pro quo \u2014 singing his god\u2019s praises in exchange for a longer life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s not talking about life in heaven, because his kind believed only in the grave after death. He means life here on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s one problem with that way of thinking. The grain of sand in this god\u2019s all-seeing eye? The idle death of any child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Old Hebrew psalmist defines divine favor as a quid pro quo \u2014 singing his god\u2019s praises in exchange for a longer life. He\u2019s not talking about life in heaven, because his kind believed only in the grave after death. He means life here on earth. There&#8217;s one problem with that way of thinking. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 61<\/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-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}