{"id":2866,"date":"2024-02-16T01:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T01:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2024-02-16T22:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:49:15","slug":"evensong-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 120"},"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_20240215_201411-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240215_201411.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This short psalm is all about dealing with a liar. Although \u2014 or maybe because \u2014 he was a fibber himself, King David hated serial liars with a passion. He wanted them to drop dead.<br><br>The king\u2019s impassioned plea in this very first \u201cSong of Ascents\u201d is one that we all can easily relate to: \u201cDeliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips \/ And from a deceitful tongue.\u201d Aaa-men.<br><br>That has been my prayer for eight years now. I hate liars \u2014 one, in particular. And while ol&#8217; YHWH\u2019s at it, He can please save us from the long red tie, fake tan, and bad combover, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short psalm is all about dealing with a liar. Although \u2014 or maybe because \u2014 he was a fibber himself, King David hated serial liars with a passion. He wanted them to drop dead. The king\u2019s impassioned plea in this very first \u201cSong of Ascents\u201d is one that we all can easily relate to: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 120<\/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-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}