{"id":3781,"date":"2020-10-19T06:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2020-10-19T07:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:06:07","slug":"saving-babies-violently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Saving Babies &#8220;Violently&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saving Babies &#8220;violently&#8221; <br>Was not in vogue when we first<br>Arrived in the great town of Wilmington. <br>Only the Church of Christ was kind<br>Enough to let us in. <br>But time has passed <br>And now we have a Presbyterian <br>Church willing to lurch <br>Out and give us a try! <br>But we will say &#8220;Goodbye.&#8221; <br>A kind try for our attendance <br>Yet we must be true <br>To that crew who received us <br>Undaunted by our reputation <br>As radicals for the baby situation. <br>Just have no toleration <br>For the non-tolerators of &#8220;violence&#8221;! <br>O the fraud of those who plead God <br>To be their ground for such unsound <br>Protestation against those <br>Who deliver from death the little ones<br>Made in the image of the Giver <br>Of life in all the earth. <br>O wisdom in the Church <br>Such a dearth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1000, 18 Oct., 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saving Babies &#8220;violently&#8221; Was not in vogue when we firstArrived in the great town of Wilmington. Only the Church of Christ was kindEnough to let us in. But time has passed And now we have a Presbyterian Church willing to lurch Out and give us a try! But we will say &#8220;Goodbye.&#8221; A kind try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,50,12,11,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"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=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}