{"id":2907,"date":"2024-03-05T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2024-03-05T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:07:38","slug":"evensong-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 133"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240305_1547166400788763054801433-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this penultimate \u201cSong of Ascent,\u201d the psalmist exclaims \u201chow good and how pleasant it is \/ For brethren to dwell together in unity!\u201d<br><br>That\u2019s a funny exclamation for this Super Tuesday, when the best President we\u2019ve had in ages continues to be maligned by the worst.<br><br>Then two images: oil on a holy man\u2019s head, like a Gatorade bath for the winning coach; and dew \u201cdescending upon the mountains of Zion.\u201d<br><br>The psalmist\u2019s conclusion \u2014 \u201cLife forevermore\u201d \u2014 contradicts the Israelites\u2019 view of death. After all, every winning streak comes to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this penultimate \u201cSong of Ascent,\u201d the psalmist exclaims \u201chow good and how pleasant it is \/ For brethren to dwell together in unity!\u201d That\u2019s a funny exclamation for this Super Tuesday, when the best President we\u2019ve had in ages continues to be maligned by the worst. Then two images: oil on a holy man\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2907\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 133<\/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-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","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=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}