{"id":2767,"date":"2024-01-09T00:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T00:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2024-01-09T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T00:19:06","slug":"evensong-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 92"},"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\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240108_191725-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm is called \u201cA Song for the Sabbath day,\u201d which we missed by a day or two, depending on one\u2019s religious persuasion. However, what this psalmist \u2014 presumably David \u2014 has to share really isn\u2019t that different from the psalms he sings any other day of the week. Here\u2019s a summary:<br><br>Thank you, Lord, for being so great! And thanks for favoring me over everyone else. Let me sing you a song. O Lord, I forgot to capitalize those references to You. But You\u2019ll forgive me, I\u2019m sure. And while I\u2019m playing my harp for You, how about smiting our enemies? Smite them good, Lord.<br><br>Like I was saying, You are kind, You are smart, and You are important \u2014 and I am special. Men like me \u201cflourish like a palm tree, \/ [and] grow like a cedar in Lebanon.\u201d And we \u201cstill bear fruit in old age.\u201d You\u2019re my rock, Lord. O, by the way, are You finished with all that Sabbath smiting yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm is called \u201cA Song for the Sabbath day,\u201d which we missed by a day or two, depending on one\u2019s religious persuasion. However, what this psalmist \u2014 presumably David \u2014 has to share really isn\u2019t that different from the psalms he sings any other day of the week. Here\u2019s a summary: Thank you, Lord, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 92<\/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-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}