{"id":2820,"date":"2024-01-31T00:08:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2024-01-31T00:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:08:46","slug":"evensong-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 108"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"1015\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248-1025x1015.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248-1025x1015.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240130_080248.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This short psalm studies war some more. Its subtitle is \u201cA Song. A Psalm of David,\u201d who, in my book, wasn\u2019t just the jawbone of an ass; this dude was the full monty of megalomania.<br><br>The last four lines are key: \u201cGive us help from trouble, \/ For the help of man is useless. \/ Through God we will do valiantly, \/ For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.\u201d<br><br>But who chose the stone, loaded the sling, and flung that fifth smooth projectile at Goliath? Who dropped that first bomb on Hiroshima? And now who always pulls the damn trigger?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short psalm studies war some more. Its subtitle is \u201cA Song. A Psalm of David,\u201d who, in my book, wasn\u2019t just the jawbone of an ass; this dude was the full monty of megalomania. The last four lines are key: \u201cGive us help from trouble, \/ For the help of man is useless. \/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 108<\/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-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}