{"id":2672,"date":"2023-11-30T02:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2023-11-30T02:32:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T02:32:35","slug":"evensong-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 64"},"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_20231129_213126-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/PSX_20231129_213126-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject matter of this psalm is like so many others \u2014 and David\u2019s paranoia is wearing me down \u2014 but I can tell that some other, more talented scribe wrote this one.<br><br>Unlike other psalmists, this guy uses similes and metaphors, saying David\u2019s enemies \u201csharpen their tongue like a sword\u201d and that the arrows they shoot \u201care bitter words.\u201d<br><br>Still, having spent the better part of this day working on a toilet with more work yet to do, I have decided that fixing the crapper is more important than parsing an old poem.<br><br>After all, Jesus said holiness can wait when there\u2019s work to be done \u2014 to pull an ox or ass out of a pit, he said. Without a fixed toilet, that\u2019s exactly where my ass would be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject matter of this psalm is like so many others \u2014 and David\u2019s paranoia is wearing me down \u2014 but I can tell that some other, more talented scribe wrote this one. Unlike other psalmists, this guy uses similes and metaphors, saying David\u2019s enemies \u201csharpen their tongue like a sword\u201d and that the arrows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 64<\/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-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}