{"id":5401,"date":"2021-12-23T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T13:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T13:54:35","slug":"death-will-come-to-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Death Will Come to Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Death came to Hugh <br>As it came to Matthew  <br>And will come to one and all. <br>And while caught up in the thrall <br>Of life&#8217;s actions and speculations, <br>Best to focus upon relations, <br>Especially with the Maker <br>Rather than the Taker. <br>O, the devil would have us fall <br>For those &#8220;blessings&#8221; that come to all, <br>Those delights of the life <br>Which with sweetness are rife,  <br>But turn out most sourly. <br>Time is short and we must abort <br>Any attraction for &#8220;this world&#8221; <br>Away from our constant obsession <br>With our\u00a0One True Possession, <br>Our Lord whom we hold dear <br>And through whom we have no fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0808 on 22 Dec., 2021 (two minutes)<br>Press on, family!  Our Lord reigns &#8211;  victorious over death. <br>Hugh trusted Him and, joining Matthew,  lives evermore, victoriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death came to Hugh As it came to Matthew And will come to one and all. And while caught up in the thrall Of life&#8217;s actions and speculations, Best to focus upon relations, Especially with the Maker Rather than the Taker. O, the devil would have us fall For those &#8220;blessings&#8221; that come to all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401"}],"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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}