{"id":654,"date":"2013-01-15T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=654"},"modified":"2013-01-15T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:09:10","slug":"oh-little-town-of-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/oh-little-town-of-bethlehem\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Using themes of Stuart Heady<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, little town of Bethlehem,<br \/>\nSurrounded by guns and tanks,<br \/>\nThe children walk amid the threat<br \/>\nOf ever closing ranks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wise men survey the rubble,<br \/>\nRemains of Paradise.<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre drowned in children\u2019s cries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, little town of Bait Jala,<br \/>\nA\u2019burning in the night,<br \/>\nThe olive trees are seared and black,<br \/>\nAnd shepherds all take flight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And as the missile thunders,<br \/>\nThe helicopter aims.<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre perished in the flames.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, little towns of Palestine,<br \/>\nCut off by settlers\u2019 roads,<br \/>\nWhere poverty\u2019s enforced by guns,<br \/>\nWhat dire future bodes?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though peace on earth was promised,<br \/>\nAnd everlasting light,<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of all the years<br \/>\nAre met in thee tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using themes of Stuart Heady Oh, little town of Bethlehem, 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\u2019s cries. Oh, little town of Bait Jala, A\u2019burning 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":[9,10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"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=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}