{"id":2697,"date":"2018-11-27T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2019-03-01T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:48:22","slug":"2697","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Arouse us to the Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arouse us to the Fight (composed on 17 Sept., 2018)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To the tune of &#8220;America&#8221; (Thesaurus Musicus, 1744)<br \/>\n(&#8220;My country &#8216;Tis of Thee, Sweet land . . . &#8220;)<\/p>\n<p>Our land defiled with blood<br \/>\nShed in our neighborhood<br \/>\nLet justice roll<br \/>\nArouse us to the fight<br \/>\nGive us courage and might<br \/>\nTo keep their bodies in our sight<br \/>\nLet justice roll<\/p>\n<p>Help us not fornicate<br \/>\nBut rather celebrate<br \/>\nYour holy Word<br \/>\nWe would be truly free<br \/>\nPursuing Destiny<br \/>\nTo others bringing harmony<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll obey Your Word<\/p>\n<p>Babies in wombs defend<br \/>\nKillers to Hell we&#8217;ll send<br \/>\nOur hands are Yours<br \/>\nUse them to do Your will<br \/>\nHelp us o&#8217;er every hill<br \/>\nWe would Your holy will fulfill<br \/>\nOpen all the doors<\/p>\n<p>Then will our land be free<br \/>\nOf Godless tyranny<br \/>\nWe will rejoice<br \/>\nNo more will blood be shed<br \/>\nAt peace we&#8217;ll to go bed<br \/>\nNo guilt will be upon our head<br \/>\nWe will lift our voice<\/p>\n<p>All praise to God we&#8217;ll give<br \/>\nThat others may now live<br \/>\nBlessed be Your name<br \/>\nJesus our Savior King<br \/>\nRuler of everything<br \/>\nTo the Trinity we&#8217;ll ever sing<br \/>\nHoly is your name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arouse us to the Fight (composed on 17 Sept., 2018) To the tune of &#8220;America&#8221; (Thesaurus Musicus, 1744) (&#8220;My country &#8216;Tis of Thee, Sweet land . . . &#8220;) Our land defiled with blood Shed in our neighborhood Let justice roll Arouse us to the fight Give us courage and might To keep their bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-wars-just-and-unjust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}