{"id":647,"date":"2004-04-09T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=647"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"good-friday-george-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/good-friday-george-herbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday&#8211;George Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O my chief good,<br \/>\nHow shall I measure out thy blood?<br \/>\nHow shall I count what thee befell,<br \/>\nAnd each grief tell?<\/p>\n<p>Shall I thy woes<br \/>\nNumber according to thy foes?<br \/>\nOr, since one star showed thy first breath,<br \/>\nShall all thy death?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOr shall each leaf,<br \/>\nWhich falls in Autumn, score a grief?<br \/>\nOr cannot leaves, but fruit, be sign<br \/>\nOf the true vine?<\/p>\n<p>Then let each hour<br \/>\nOf my whole life one grief devour;<br \/>\nThat thy distress through all may run,<br \/>\nAnd be my sun.<\/p>\n<p>Or rather let<br \/>\nMy several sins their sorrows get;<br \/>\nThat as each beast his cure doth know,<br \/>\nEach sin may so.<\/p>\n<p>Since blood is fittest, Lord, to write<br \/>\nThy sorrows in, and bloody fight;<br \/>\nMy heart hath store, write there, where in<br \/>\nOne box doth lie both ink and sin:<\/p>\n<p>That when sin spies so many foes,<br \/>\nThy whips, thy nails, thy wounds, thy woes,<br \/>\nAll come to lodge there, sin may say,<br \/>\n&#8216;No room for me,&#8217; and fly away.<\/p>\n<p>Sin being gone, oh fill the place,<br \/>\nAnd keep possession with thy grace;<br \/>\nLest sin take courage and return,<br \/>\nAnd all the writings blot or burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O my chief good, How shall I measure out thy blood? How shall I count what thee befell, And each grief tell? Shall I thy woes Number according to thy foes? Or, since one star showed thy first breath, Shall all thy death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-poetry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}