{"id":4078,"date":"2020-12-18T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:25:12","slug":"forty-whacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4078","title":{"rendered":"Forty Whacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forty whacks is the max; <br>You cannot give them more! <br>If they can&#8217;t conduct themselves, <br>Throw them out the door. <br>But bring about correction <br>Lest you rear a whore. <br>Give them love and direction <br>Needed all the more <br>For rebels and disputants <br>Looking for the chance <br>When they can distance <br>Themselves from correction<br>Forsaking divine protection <br>From the path of sin, <br>That rebellion from within. <br>The Law&#8217;s not hard to follow <br>When foolish pride we swallow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0820 on 17 Dec., 2020 re Deut. 25:3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty whacks is the max; You cannot give them more! If they can&#8217;t conduct themselves, Throw them out the door. But bring about correction Lest you rear a whore. Give them love and direction Needed all the more For rebels and disputants Looking for the chance When they can distance Themselves from correctionForsaking divine protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,17,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-or-not","category-family-matters","category-fathers-rights","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","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=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}