{"id":7592,"date":"2023-04-13T12:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2023-04-14T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:56:42","slug":"beverly-bray-rides-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7592","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Bray Rides On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A widow, a widower and a divorce*; <br>Oh, life was rough on Beverly Bray! <br>Those kids put her right through the ringer <br>And her firstborn went to the &#8220;clinker&#8221;! <br>They put the bloke right in the clink <br>As if he needed time to <em>think<\/em> <br>About &#8216;is &#8220;wicked&#8221; deeds! <br>(O come on fools!\u00a0 Awaken! <br>On whose life are you stakin&#8217; <br>Such a foolish supposition? <br>Don&#8217;t folks go to jail for the right? <br>Even as most go in for the wrong?) <br>Well, she weathered well that trouble; <br>It all blew away like a harmless bubble, <br>But did take a little more time: <br>Those obituaries and that prison <br>To weather as the pain wore on. <br>But by the grace of that Savior, <br>She has trusted Him over any behavior. <br>All on this earth comes to an end, <br>But we will see one another again <br>In that place where our Savior resides <br>With the Father and Spirit on high!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 April, 2023<br>* Accent the &#8220;e&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A widow, a widower and a divorce*; Oh, life was rough on Beverly Bray! Those kids put her right through the ringer And her firstborn went to the &#8220;clinker&#8221;! They put the bloke right in the clink As if he needed time to think About &#8216;is &#8220;wicked&#8221; deeds! (O come on fools!\u00a0 Awaken! On whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,18,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592"}],"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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}