{"id":5004,"date":"2021-08-04T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2021-08-04T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:19:08","slug":"absalom-was-stuck-in-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5004","title":{"rendered":"Absalom Was Stuck in a Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 Sam 18 <br>(3 Aug., 2021) <br><br>Absalom was stuck in a tree <br>Hanging by his hair for all to see (v. 9) <br>Well, the word got back to Joab <br>And he decided he would take a stab. <br>He took three spears in his hand (14) <br>And put them through the heart of that man <br>There he was, hanging down from that oak (14)<br>The life of that rebel became a sad joke. <br>Threw him down into a hole in the ground (17) <br>Piled some stones on tope so his grave could be found; <br>Had no kids to carry on his name, <br>So they him a pillar for some fame (18) <br>Then said Ahimaaz, &#8220;I got some news for the king.<br>The Lord has freed him from his enemies!&#8221; <br>&#8220;What a gas!&#8221; said Ahimaz, &#8220;I got to tell the king! (19) <br>This news a fellow wants to sing!&#8221; <br>But Joab said, &#8220;You ain&#8217;t the man to tell! <br>The news is bad.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t go well&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Sam 18 (3 Aug., 2021) Absalom was stuck in a tree Hanging by his hair for all to see (v. 9) Well, the word got back to Joab And he decided he would take a stab. He took three spears in his hand (14) And put them through the heart of that man There [&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\/5004"}],"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=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}