{"id":80204,"date":"2020-09-21T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=80204"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:22:56","slug":"the-serpent-after-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-serpent-after-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Serpent, After Eden"},"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":"80204","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36669,"related_cahpter":"573","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\"O Lord, in Your anger do not rebuke me, in Your wrath do not afflict me.\u00a0 Have pity on me, for I am miserable, heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.\" (Psalm 6:2-3)\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd the Lord God said to the serpent, \u2018Because you did this, you shall be accursed more than all creatures, domestic and wild; on your stomach shall you creep, and dust shall you eat, all the days of your life.\u201d (Genesis 3:14)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How difficult to speak, devoid of voice,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unable to request a second chance,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or to admit I made a wretched choice<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dictated by my pride and arrogance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How difficult to write, devoid of arms,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of fingers and of hands that hold a pen,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And scrolls on<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which I\u2019d copy fervent psalms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expressing how I wouldn\u2019t err again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How difficult to pray, devoid of soul,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That inner arm which pulls away from wrong,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That inner voice which teaches self-control<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And whispers in the dark, half-cry, half-song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I slither, soulless, limbless, mute and thin;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How poor a diet is the dust of sin.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","main_caption":"The Serpent, After Eden","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"I slither, soulless, limbless, mute and thin","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\/80204"}],"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=80204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80205,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80204\/revisions\/80205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}