{"id":53489,"date":"2019-04-10T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53489"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:47:00","slug":"before-the-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/before-the-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"53489","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":52894,"related_cahpter":"2005","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p>I was there at the Beginning<br \/>\nAt the void, and then darkness and light<br \/>\nThe arc of growth, a budding partnership of Above and Below<br \/>\nOf Life and of Eden then &#8212;<br \/>\nMistakes.<br \/>\nLoss and yearning and death<br \/>\nAt the beginning of Real Life<\/p>\n<p>The flow of generations, of names<br \/>\nOf hubris and destruction<br \/>\nAt the heights of raven and dove, searching<br \/>\nAnd I witnessed the dawning of There is More and Greater\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Through Abraham&#8217;s test and G-d&#8217;s promise<br \/>\nOn sand and under stars<br \/>\nAnd those who came after, the great and the flawed<br \/>\nEnslaved<br \/>\nPlagued\u00a0<br \/>\nRelease and redemption and<br \/>\nThe gift of Truth on a mountain.<br \/>\nPain in so many bad choices\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8211; what hope do we have if they couldn&#8217;t?<br \/>\nTemptations and judgement<br \/>\nEyes glazed over in blood sacrifice and nitty-gritty building details<br \/>\nAnd nos and mustn&#8217;ts and\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Must.<br \/>\nThe divvying<br \/>\nThe tethering to a land\u00a0<br \/>\nG-d and his people, He and even me<br \/>\nThe commitment<br \/>\nI have been blessed and warned and cursed<br \/>\nAnd I cried because I have come home where Moses could not<br \/>\nBut I read the bones of what he brought down from G-d<br \/>\nJust as he knew I would,<br \/>\nAs they both intended<br \/>\nArt from the Master<br \/>\nWords to make a whole world<br \/>\nAnd to live by them.<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"A Poem for the End, and the Beginning","main_caption":"Before the Prophets","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"I have been blessed and warned and cursed...","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53498,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53489\/revisions\/53498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}