{"id":2830,"date":"2024-02-02T23:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2024-02-02T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:54:16","slug":"evensong-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 111"},"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_20240202_143925-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240202_143925-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm reminds me of the child\u2019s mealtime prayer that begins, \u201cGod is great; God is good.\u201d<br><br>But the writer takes nine verses to say basically that \u2014 that YHWH is better than sliced bread.<br><br>In the tenth and last verse the psalmist says, \u201cThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d<br><br>So, in other words, if we\u2019re smart, we just keep our mouths shut and do whatever YHWH says.<br><br>But our cussed conundrum is interpreting His commandments and losing nothing in translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm reminds me of the child\u2019s mealtime prayer that begins, \u201cGod is great; God is good.\u201d But the writer takes nine verses to say basically that \u2014 that YHWH is better than sliced bread. In the tenth and last verse the psalmist says, \u201cThe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 111<\/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-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}