{"id":2696,"date":"2023-12-12T03:44:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:44:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:44:36","slug":"evensong-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362-768x1004.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362-1175x1536.jpg 1175w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_13362.jpg 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is \u201cA Psalm of Solomon,\u201d not of David \u2014 the first one I\u2019ve noticed so far. But its 20th and final verse also calls this meditation \u201cthe prayers of David, the son of Jesse.\u201d So, this psalm is about fathers and sons, tearful regrets and wide-eyed hopes, torn pages and second chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David starts by basically saying, \u201cI\u2019ve done so much wrong, YHWH, but my boy does stuff right. He will be good for all of our people, especially for the poor, the needy, the oppressed. His wise rule will bring lasting peace to our land, and we will be the envy of the world as we now know it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn\u2019t that how it should be? When loving parents, caring teachers, selfless mentors look back in their rear-view mirror and see how rocky the road taken has been, they will stop the car and ask their young riders, \u201cPick us a new route, and we\u2019ll go wherever you say. It must be a better way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is \u201cA Psalm of Solomon,\u201d not of David \u2014 the first one I\u2019ve noticed so far. But its 20th and final verse also calls this meditation \u201cthe prayers of David, the son of Jesse.\u201d So, this psalm is about fathers and sons, tearful regrets and wide-eyed hopes, torn pages and second chapters. David starts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2696\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 72<\/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-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}