{"id":2885,"date":"2024-02-24T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2024-02-24T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T01:19:28","slug":"evensong-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 126"},"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_20240223_201651-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240223_201651-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a seriously funny psalm \u2014 not funny ha-ha, but funny as in curious and odd.<br><br>The poet mentions the Jews\u2019 joy \u201c[w]hen the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion.\u201d<br><br>\u201cBring back our captivity,\u201d the poet adds. \u201cThose who sow in tears \/ Shall reap in joy.\u201d<br><br>Is the psalmist saying that some people can only be happy when they are so, so sad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a seriously funny psalm \u2014 not funny ha-ha, but funny as in curious and odd. The poet mentions the Jews\u2019 joy \u201c[w]hen the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion.\u201d \u201cBring back our captivity,\u201d the poet adds. \u201cThose who sow in tears \/ Shall reap in joy.\u201d Is the psalmist saying that some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 126<\/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-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}