{"id":4637,"date":"2021-05-22T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:02:01","slug":"mephibosheth-fell-on-his-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"Mephibosheth Fell on His Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> (2 Sam. 9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mephibosheth fell on his face <br>Said to David, &#8220;Here is your servant!&#8221; <br>And Dave said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t sweat it my man! <br>Any one from the House of Saul I can serve?&#8221; <br>&#8220;Jonathan,&#8221; they said. &#8220;But he&#8217;s crippled in both feet&#8221; <br>&#8220;Well, where is he?&#8221; said David, &#8220;Bring him here for me to meet.&#8221; <br>So Meph came along and fell down at his face, <br>Said to David, &#8220;Hear I am, your slave!&#8221; (6) <br>&#8220;Ah, do not fear,&#8221; said David, &#8220;I am fixin&#8217; to be kind. (7) <br>You know your daddy Jonathan was quite a friend of mine<br>I&#8217;m gonna give you all the land of your Granddaddy Saul.&#8221; <br>&#8220;What?&#8221; said Neph. &#8220;I don&#8217;t deserve it at all!&#8221; (8) <br>&#8220;Ah but you and your sons gonna tend to the land. (10) <br>Eat at my table! I&#8217;ll lend you a hand!&#8221; (11) <br>Well Meph had a son by the name of Micah. (12) <br>Must have had all the sense of a biker. <br>Nothin&#8217; more about him said, <br>Must have just wound up dead. (13) <br>He was lame in both feet, (14) <br>So to eat he had to cheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 May, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2 Sam. 9) Mephibosheth fell on his face Said to David, &#8220;Here is your servant!&#8221; And Dave said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t sweat it my man! Any one from the House of Saul I can serve?&#8221; &#8220;Jonathan,&#8221; they said. &#8220;But he&#8217;s crippled in both feet&#8221; &#8220;Well, where is he?&#8221; said David, &#8220;Bring him here for me to meet.&#8221; [&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\/4637"}],"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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}