{"id":3298,"date":"2020-03-13T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:57:14","slug":"the-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"The Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe boneless tongue, so small and weak, <br>Can crush and kill,\u201d declared the Greek. <br>\u201cThe tongue destroys a greater horde,\u201d <br>The Turk asserts, \u201cthan does the sword.\u201d <br>The Persian proverb wisely saith, <br>\u201cA lengthy tongue, an early death.\u201d <br>Or sometimes takes this form instead, <br>\u201cDon\u2019t let your tongue cut off your head.\u201d <br>\u201cThe tongue can speak a word whose speed,\u201d <br>Says the Chinese, \u201coutstrips the steed.\u201d <br>While Arab sages this impart: <br>\u201cThe tongue\u2019s great storehouse is the heart.\u201d <br>From Hebrew wit the maxim sprung, <br>\u201cTho feet should slip ne\u2019er let the tongue.\u201d <br>The sacred writer crowns the whole: <br>\u201cWho keeps his tongue doth keep his soul.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>Inspiring Poems<\/em>,\ncompiled by C.B. Eavey, Zondervan, 1970)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill,\u201d declared the Greek. \u201cThe tongue destroys a greater horde,\u201d The Turk asserts, \u201cthan does the sword.\u201d The Persian proverb wisely saith, \u201cA lengthy tongue, an early death.\u201d Or sometimes takes this form instead, \u201cDon\u2019t let your tongue cut off your head.\u201d \u201cThe tongue can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}