{"id":2675,"date":"2023-12-01T02:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2023-12-01T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:44:34","slug":"evensong-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 65"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_16250153975272-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_16250153975272-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/FB_IMG_16250153975272.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a standard Old Hebrew greeting and salutation in verses 1-4, this psalmist points his pen in verse 5 at \u201cYou who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, \/ And of the far-off seas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that point on \u2014 in verses 6-13 \u2014 that divine \u201cYou\u201d could just as well be called \u201cNature\u201d or \u201cGaia\u201d or \u201cGitche Manitou.\u201d Then those last eight verses would make perfect sense in any circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water in its various forms is the psalm\u2019s dominant image \u2014 as ocean waves, mountain streams, majestic rivers, but mainly as rains that come down to make \u201cthe little hills rejoice on every side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to these life-giving showers, \u201cThe pastures are clothed with flocks; \/ The valleys also are covered with grain; \/ They shout for joy, they also sing.\u201d I would bet they also danced in that rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a standard Old Hebrew greeting and salutation in verses 1-4, this psalmist points his pen in verse 5 at \u201cYou who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, \/ And of the far-off seas.\u201d From that point on \u2014 in verses 6-13 \u2014 that divine \u201cYou\u201d could just as well be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 65<\/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-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}