{"id":5806,"date":"2022-03-03T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2022-03-03T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:52:42","slug":"tragedy-or-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5806","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy or Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we lived for Him <br>We lived a life of triumph <br>No matter the troubles, <br>Regardless of the losses. <br>But if we served ourselves <br>And had no care for others <br>Following our whims and druthers, <br>We send ourselves to hell <br>Where others of like mind dwell. <br>Buck up then and run well <br>The course for you laid out! <br>The trials you must not flout <br>As you steer your course in vain <br>Looking for that life without pain! <br>The victory comes through death; <br>This life is but a breeze. <br>Sail well in it under His sneeze <br>As he shakes you up and down. <br>There is much in your corruption <br>Needing that heavenly attention. <br>Looking, then, from life&#8217;s end, <br>What in yours now must He bend?<br><br>3 Mar., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we lived for Him We lived a life of triumph No matter the troubles, Regardless of the losses. But if we served ourselves And had no care for others Following our whims and druthers, We send ourselves to hell Where others of like mind dwell. Buck up then and run well The course for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806"}],"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=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5807,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}