{"id":7794,"date":"2023-08-08T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:17:58","slug":"on-knee-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7794","title":{"rendered":"On &#8220;Knee-fighting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight on my knees,&#8221; the song says. <br>But prayer, like faith without works, <br>Is was God calls &#8220;dead!&#8221; <br>So, when you are done praying, arise! <br>Put on your pants and open you eyes!<br>Go to those who are in need: <br>Victims, maybe, of another&#8217;s greed <br>(Anybody killin&#8217; babies in the &#8216;hood?  <br>Do your community some good; <br>Save a baby and stop the flow,  <br>Whether by a match or a blow.) <br>So, may you\u00a0pray for the Lord <br>To protect you in your deed <br>As you help those in need. <br>Yes, soldiers and wrestlers sometimes<br>Find on their knees as well;<br>So do they please Him and avoid hell.<br>But there are times to put up a fight<br>As we preach and contend for the Right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1300 &#8211; 1612 on 5 Aug., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll fight on my knees,&#8221; the song says. But prayer, like faith without works, Is was God calls &#8220;dead!&#8221; So, when you are done praying, arise! Put on your pants and open you eyes!Go to those who are in need: Victims, maybe, of another&#8217;s greed (Anybody killin&#8217; babies in the &#8216;hood? Do your community some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,45,48,9,12,52,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}