{"id":2920,"date":"2024-03-12T01:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2024-03-12T01:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:27:44","slug":"evensong-137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2920","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 137"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1580653117121-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1580653117121-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FB_IMG_1580653117121.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The great F. Scott Fitzgerald must have visited this psalm \u2014 \u201cBy the rivers of Babylon\u201d \u2014 once or twice. It\u2019s about being a poor artist among the beautiful and damned on this side of paradise.<br><br>Like the psalmist, Scott knew how it felt to dance around the rich and powerful crowd of his day. He used his talent to make himself part of the Lost Generation, like Zelda, Gertrude and Ernest.<br><br>But unlike the Ancient Hebrew psalmist, who would not play and sing for his Babylonian captors, Scott churned out the words and \u201crazed\u201d not Babylon around him, but instead destroyed himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great F. Scott Fitzgerald must have visited this psalm \u2014 \u201cBy the rivers of Babylon\u201d \u2014 once or twice. It\u2019s about being a poor artist among the beautiful and damned on this side of paradise. Like the psalmist, Scott knew how it felt to dance around the rich and powerful crowd of his day. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 137<\/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-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}