{"id":2895,"date":"2024-02-28T23:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:50:56","slug":"evensong-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 129"},"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_20240228_141106-1025x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-1025x1024.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240228_141106-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This \u201cPsalm of Ascent\u201d is another one about enemies who \u201chave afflicted me from my youth; \/ Yet they have not prevailed against me.\u201d<br><br>From there on, though, the psalmist uses agricultural images \u2014 withered grass, empty-handed reapers and inactive binders of sheaves.<br><br>My favorite metaphor is, \u201cThe plowers plowed on my back; \/ They made their furrows long.\u201d But YHWH rescued him and cut those cords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cPsalm of Ascent\u201d is another one about enemies who \u201chave afflicted me from my youth; \/ Yet they have not prevailed against me.\u201d From there on, though, the psalmist uses agricultural images \u2014 withered grass, empty-handed reapers and inactive binders of sheaves. My favorite metaphor is, \u201cThe plowers plowed on my back; \/ They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 129<\/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-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}