{"id":444,"date":"2006-08-20T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T13:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/?p=444"},"modified":"2006-08-20T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T13:38:29","slug":"nobody-let-go-everybody-hang-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/nobody-let-go-everybody-hang-on\/","title":{"rendered":"nobody let go! everybody hang on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>nobody let go!<br \/>\neverybody hang on!<\/p>\n<p>new and ancient vendettas<br \/>\nrefusing grief and grieving<\/p>\n<p>refusing forgiveness<br \/>\nthey will not be forgiven<\/p>\n<p>no body let go!<br \/>\nno body give in!<\/p>\n<p>old wars fought<br \/>\nwith growing vengeance<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vengeance is mine,&#8221;<br \/>\nsayeth the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>2006: how many Lords<br \/>\nextracting vengeance?<br \/>\n(after all, did He not<br \/>\nmake man in His image?)<br \/>\nLittle Gods aka Little Hitlers<\/p>\n<p>2006: how many Swords in Damasks<br \/>\nhow many &#8220;surgical strikers&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>26,000 years ago is today&#8217;s Moon River<br \/>\n3 monotheistic religions politicized<br \/>\none American Dream stolen<br \/>\nturns rotten with the true<br \/>\nsource of all evil: greed!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Money is only a vehicle,&#8221;<br \/>\nmy children&#8217;s author observes.<br \/>\nAnd we recall a farmer&#8217;s way<br \/>\nto barter, &#8220;It is most important<br \/>\nboth barterers feel they received<br \/>\nan honest deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>for four thousand years<br \/>\none day per week was enough to pray<br \/>\ntoday five times a day is enough<br \/>\nwell, maybe<br \/>\nmaybe time to beef it up<br \/>\nto 24\/7, nooo you say,<br \/>\n&#8220;Around the world of different time zones<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re already praying 24\/7.&#8221;<br \/>\nYeah and but&#8230;the religious three mono&#8217;s<br \/>\nare praying three opposing directions<br \/>\nI heard it today myself on God&#8217;s Learning Channel<br \/>\n&#8220;Pray for Israel&#8221;<br \/>\nis there any doubt others prayers went up from<br \/>\nPalestine, Iraq and Lebanon<br \/>\nand Africa and South America?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s missing in this picture?<\/p>\n<p>Learning from history?<br \/>\nIs V for Vengeance or Victory?<br \/>\nHow do you spell no war ever ends?<br \/>\nNative Americans? Southern Rebs?<br \/>\nMuslims? Christians? Jews?<\/p>\n<p>Learn to ask better questions<br \/>\npoet Paul proffers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How much blood does it take<br \/>\ntoo revive a desicated turnip?<\/p>\n<p>d\u00e9tente time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nobody let go! everybody hang on! new and ancient vendettas refusing grief and grieving refusing forgiveness they will not be forgiven no body let go! no body give in! old wars fought with growing vengeance &#8220;Vengeance is mine,&#8221; sayeth the Lord. 2006: how many Lords extracting vengeance? (after all, did He not make man in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/nobody-let-go-everybody-hang-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;nobody let go! everybody hang on!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-spammers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}