{"id":2736,"date":"2023-12-28T01:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2023-12-28T01:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:30:01","slug":"evensong-83-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 84"},"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_20231227_201130-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PSX_20231227_201130-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the eighth psalm credited to the \u201csons of Korah,\u201d an old Hebrew who made cracks about Moses until YHWH shut him up with a crack of his own \u2014 one in the ground that Korah fell into.<br><br>And even though the old story claims that Korah\u2019s whole family fell into the hole with him, some of his so-called sons survived to write obsequious songs like this one for the supercilious David.<br><br>That\u2019s understandable, considering what YAH supposedly did to their dad. Now, this psalm isn\u2019t all bad. It has nature \u2014 birds in nests, verdant valleys with cool springs and pools of clear water.<br><br>But it\u2019s main point is that Korah\u2019s kids would rather spend a single day in YHWH\u2019s tabernacle \u2014 nothing but a tent, really, not a temple \u2014 than a thousand and one days in paradise. Yeah, I bet.<br><br>Still, the sons say, \u201cFor the Lord God is a sun and shield; \/ No good thing will He withhold \/ From those who walk uprightly.\u201d That isn\u2019t wack, \u2018cause Korah did stumble and fall into that big crack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the eighth psalm credited to the \u201csons of Korah,\u201d an old Hebrew who made cracks about Moses until YHWH shut him up with a crack of his own \u2014 one in the ground that Korah fell into. And even though the old story claims that Korah\u2019s whole family fell into the hole with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 84<\/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-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","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=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}