{"id":6029,"date":"2022-06-07T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:04:59","slug":"in-honor-or-joseph-a-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6029","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Joseph A. Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We honor our dad, known as Joseph A <br>A man who honored the name of Bray. <br>He left home to go to Annapolis; <br>Was sent off to many-a metropolis <br>Around the nation and lots of the world. <br>And to the same his family he unfurled <br>That Light shining for the glory of God, <br>For Him, his wife and kids to laud. <br>He showed us the way by living it out; <br>Didn&#8217;t need to apply many spanks or shouts. <br>Showed that patience and resolution <br>&#8220;Nothing is easy&#8221;; just find the solution.  <br>And so he traveled to the very end <br>To join with the Savior in that big tent <br>Where all will be gathered to praise and adore <br>That One whose blood for us He did pour.<br>And no higher task could a father perform <br>Than to show us the way out of the storm <br>Of a world twirling about in delusion <br>In desperate need of an infusion <br>Of that Spirit sent by the Lord Himself <br>Who came down from that heavenly shelf <br>To guide us and keep us on His path <br>Avoiding that pain of well-earned wrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cir. 7 June, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We honor our dad, known as Joseph A A man who honored the name of Bray. He left home to go to Annapolis; Was sent off to many-a metropolis Around the nation and lots of the world. And to the same his family he unfurled That Light shining for the glory of God, For Him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,57,18,30,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029"}],"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=6029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6029\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}