{"id":5505,"date":"2022-01-20T13:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T18:34:36","slug":"that-rift-with-the-heathen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5505","title":{"rendered":"That Rift with the Heathen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is always be a rift <br>Between the heathen and those with a gift, <br>That awakening by the Spirit <br>Who gives life without regard to merit. <br>Left to that measure, we&#8217;d be doomed, <br>No matter how we worked and groomed <br>Ourselves to be pleasing in His sight. <br>We&#8217;re too far down to find the way <br>No matter what we do or say <br>We fail to earn from Him a pardon  <br>Bygones can&#8217;t be made bygones  <br>In the mind of omniscient God <br>Except by omnipotent power to abolish <br>Every sin by the conquering Lamb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1640 on 19 January, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is always be a rift Between the heathen and those with a gift, That awakening by the Spirit Who gives life without regard to merit. Left to that measure, we&#8217;d be doomed, No matter how we worked and groomed Ourselves to be pleasing in His sight. We&#8217;re too far down to find the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,53,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505"}],"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=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5506,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}