{"id":3969,"date":"2026-04-17T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:16:53","slug":"sunday-verses-hopewell-4-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Hopewell&#8217; (4\/19\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnward, Christian soldiers, \/ marching as to war\u2026\u201d \/ What kind of song is that? \/ A battle hymn? God, of what republic?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" style=\"width: 121px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hopewell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3970\" src=\"http:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hopewell-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hopewell-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/hopewell.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MY PARENTS were married and are buried at Hopewell Baptist Church.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s \u201cJesus loves me, \/ this I know\u2026\u201d \/ Did the Great Physician trade in \/ his healing hands for an M1 carbine?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so confusing these days \u2014 \/ good people worshiping \/ Baal and his golden bone spurs, \/ breaking commandments,<\/p>\n<p>Especially the first one \/ about having no other gods, \/ because he\u2019s a jealous god, right? \/ Just fuck around and find out.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping bombs on Sunday \/ is how we do business now, boss. \/ It&#8217;s still about shock and awe, \/ and it&#8217;s about, uh, just cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By RAHN ADAMS \u201cOnward, Christian soldiers, \/ marching as to war\u2026\u201d \/ What kind of song is that? \/ A battle hymn? God, of what republic? Then there&#8217;s \u201cJesus loves me, \/ this I know\u2026\u201d \/ Did the Great Physician trade in \/ his healing hands for an M1 carbine? It&#8217;s so confusing these days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=3969\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUNDAY VERSES: &#8216;Hopewell&#8217; (4\/19\/2026)<\/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-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}