{"id":650,"date":"2013-01-14T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=650"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T01:23:26","slug":"oh-little-land-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/oh-little-land-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Little Land of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>tune: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, little land of Ga-aza,<br \/>\nSurrounded by guns and tanks,<br \/>\nThe children walk amid the threat<br \/>\nOf ever closing ranks.<br \/>\nWise men survey the rubble,<br \/>\nRemains of Paradise.<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre drowned in children&#8217;s cries.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, little towns of Ga-aza,<br \/>\nA&#8217;burning in the night,<br \/>\nThe olive trees are seared and black,<br \/>\nAnd shepherds all take flight.<br \/>\nAnd as the missile thunders,<br \/>\nThe helicopter aims.<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre perished in the flames.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, little towns of Palestine,<br \/>\nCut off by settlers&#8217; roads,<br \/>\nWhere poverty&#8217;s enforced by guns,<br \/>\nWhat dire future bodes?<br \/>\nThough peace on earth was promised,<br \/>\nAnd everlasting light,<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre met in thee tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tune: Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Oh, little land of Ga-aza, Surrounded by guns and tanks, The children walk amid the threat Of ever closing ranks. Wise men survey the rubble, Remains of Paradise. The hopes and fears of all the years Are drowned in children&#8217;s cries. Oh, little towns of Ga-aza, A&#8217;burning in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}