{"id":2961,"date":"2024-03-29T00:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T00:13:52","slug":"evensong-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 150"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240326_1702472-scaled.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the very last psalm in the Book of Psalms. Like the four before it, this psalm begins and ends with, \u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d<br><br>Twelve of the poem\u2019s 13 lines begin with the word \u201cPraise.\u201d The odd line is, \u201cLet everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u201d<br><br>After responding to all 150 psalms \u2014 one each weekday since September 1, 2023 \u2014 I\u2019m all out of breath, but I kept my word.<br><br>Tomorrow, on Good Friday, I\u2019ll explain for the first time who prompted this project, why I saw it to its end, and what I got from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the very last psalm in the Book of Psalms. Like the four before it, this psalm begins and ends with, \u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d Twelve of the poem\u2019s 13 lines begin with the word \u201cPraise.\u201d The odd line is, \u201cLet everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u201d After responding to all 150 psalms \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 150<\/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-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","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=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}