{"id":2687,"date":"2023-12-07T01:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2023-12-07T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:52:07","slug":"evensong-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 69"},"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\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231206_194628-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, please, don\u2019t kill me! I\u2019m up to my neck in hot water! I\u2019m sinking in quicksand! I\u2019m in over my head! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn\u2019t my fault! I SWEAR TO GOD!<br><br>Good lord, now I\u2019m wondering if David was a paranoid schizophrenic, the way he keeps whining about having so many enemies. And as a paterfamilias, I bet he was chock-full of inner demons.<br><br>This is yet another psalm in which David wants YHWH to deliver him from what he fears, maybe to justify his own bad deeds. The devil couldn\u2019t make him do it if he was on a mission from YAH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, please, don\u2019t kill me! I\u2019m up to my neck in hot water! I\u2019m sinking in quicksand! I\u2019m in over my head! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! It wasn\u2019t my fault! I SWEAR TO GOD! Good lord, now I\u2019m wondering if David was a paranoid schizophrenic, the way he keeps whining about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 69<\/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-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}