{"id":7787,"date":"2023-08-01T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7787"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T17:36:03","slug":"citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7787","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In history was something you were born into, <br>Or that you earned. <br>It was not something that you <em>claimed<\/em>! <br>It is a status that we, Americans, take for granted;<br>We are accustomed to the status of a citizen<br>Who has precious, blood-bought rights,<br>And we bask in this condition as drunkards<br>Unaware of its origins or its providers.<br>Spoiled brats living off the lush provision of others,<br>We whine about any reduction in our comfort level.<br>What sick puppies indeed we have become<br>Wallowing in the fruit of another&#8217;s labor,<br>Ungrateful of the grace of others and the Savior!<br>Time will come when we are called to account<br>For\u00a0our squandering and ignoring of that Fount<br>Of all our provisions and blessings from above<br>Poured down from the One with infinite love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1235 on 1 August, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In history was something you were born into, Or that you earned. It was not something that you claimed! It is a status that we, Americans, take for granted;We are accustomed to the status of a citizenWho has precious, blood-bought rights,And we bask in this condition as drunkardsUnaware of its origins or its providers.Spoiled brats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,12,57,30,52,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787"}],"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=7787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7791,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7787\/revisions\/7791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}