{"id":5021,"date":"2021-08-10T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2021-08-10T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T13:49:56","slug":"o-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5021","title":{"rendered":"O Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the tune of &#8220;America&#8221; (&#8220;O Beautiful for Spacious Skies . . .)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Beautiful, you&#8217;ve lost the race <br>You&#8217;ve fallen far from grace <br>You&#8217;re high and dry while babies die <br>You don&#8217;t deserve this place <br>That land would vomit you right out <br>But for the grace of God <br>He&#8217;s done with you, your time is through <br>The next step is the rod! <br><br>But wait, there may be mercy yet <br>Some how He may still care <br>Though you are hardly worth a dime <br>There may yet still be time <br>You may repent, those clinics rent <br>Must burn them to the ground <br>You&#8217;ll save the day and find a way <br>For mercy to be found.  <br><br>Now Ike, my boy, or Jonas, son <br>This need not be for you <br>The calls of God are plentiful <br>There&#8217;s much for you to do <br>Take a wife and have a life <br>Bring children to this world <br>Preach the Word to all the herd <br>His glory to unfurl. <br><br>To the tune of &#8220;America&#8221;<br>A.m. on 10 Aug., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the tune of &#8220;America&#8221; (&#8220;O Beautiful for Spacious Skies . . .) O Beautiful, you&#8217;ve lost the race You&#8217;ve fallen far from grace You&#8217;re high and dry while babies die You don&#8217;t deserve this place That land would vomit you right out But for the grace of God He&#8217;s done with you, your time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,12,18,30,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021"}],"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=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}