{"id":1000,"date":"2022-01-09T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2022-01-09T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T20:19:59","slug":"salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Salt of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Up Rooted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went home to a foreign land next door <br>Where the fearful braves knew all <br>The secret names of God; but for me <br>They had no name. So I was called <br>The Moabitess; wholly comprehended, <br>In every stranger&#8217;s glance, by my father\u2019s shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They knew the secret art of turning <br>Staff to serpent, water to blood; and <br>All the plagues of Moses; even <br>How to kill your firstborn son. But <br>Everyone knows that Moabite women, <br>They love their sons too well for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy mountain men, living on tasteless bread, <br>From stormy mountains descended, heaving <br>Stony laws at song and feast and dance, <br>And grinding every golden thing to dust. <br>Moabite women, they turn back to Sodom; <br>That\u2019s what all the old salts say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who seemed to be pillars never <br>Repeated the promise I first heard far away <br>At home: Laughter, and the gentle thunder <br>Of children\u2019s feet running over glad hills, <br>Looking after the sheep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/2\/2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up Rooted I went home to a foreign land next door Where the fearful braves knew all The secret names of God; but for me They had no name. So I was called The Moabitess; wholly comprehended, In every stranger&#8217;s glance, by my father\u2019s shame. They knew the secret art of turning Staff to serpent, water to blood; and All <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=1000\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}