{"id":2823,"date":"2024-02-01T01:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2024-02-01T01:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:20:02","slug":"evensong-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2823","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 109"},"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\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240131_201832-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t believe me when I say King David was a royal jerk, you need to read this psalm for yourself. His paranoia is in full bloom, as he wishes every bad thing imaginable on his enemies.<br><br>\u201cLet his days be few,\u201d David orders YHWH, \u201cAnd let another take his office. \/ Let his children be fatherless, \/ And his wife a widow.\u201d It gets worse. He even wants the man\u2019s children annihilated.<br><br>As for himself \u2014 the poor, poor, pitiful king \u2014 David says, \u201cBut You, O God the Lord, \/ Deal with me for Your name\u2019s sake; \/ Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.\u201d Lord, have mercy is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t believe me when I say King David was a royal jerk, you need to read this psalm for yourself. His paranoia is in full bloom, as he wishes every bad thing imaginable on his enemies. \u201cLet his days be few,\u201d David orders YHWH, \u201cAnd let another take his office. \/ Let his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 109<\/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-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","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=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}