{"id":2774,"date":"2024-01-11T02:26:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2024-01-11T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T02:27:13","slug":"evensong-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2774","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 94"},"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_20240110_212625-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240110_212625-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240110_212625-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240110_212625-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240110_212625-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240110_212625.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just read the first line of this psalm and winced: \u201cO Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs\u2014\u201d Oh, god, another one of those psalms, I thought.<br \/><br \/>But I read the whole thing, anyway, and I saw that it describes as proud, wicked, and insolent, people like MAGA fanatics and their lying leader.<br \/><br \/>The psalmist asks why YHWH hasn\u2019t smacked all those bad people down yet. \u201c[Y]ou fools,\u201d he says to the wicked ones, \u201cwhen will you be wise?\u201d<br \/><br \/>And then the psalmist adds, \u201cThe Lord knows the thoughts of man, \/ That they are futile.\u201d But is this wise guy referring just to them or to us both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the first line of this psalm and winced: \u201cO Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs\u2014\u201d Oh, god, another one of those psalms, I thought. But I read the whole thing, anyway, and I saw that it describes as proud, wicked, and insolent, people like MAGA fanatics and their lying leader. The psalmist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 94<\/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-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","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=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}