{"id":659,"date":"2010-12-05T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T19:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2010\/12\/05\/a-would-be-jonah\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T19:53:00","slug":"a-would-be-jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/a-would-be-jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"A Would-be Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, let me be a Jonah!<br \/>\nOnly, since I&#8217;ve refused to flee,<br \/>\nWhen my tedious warnings<br \/>\nAbout the Occupation<br \/>\nAnd global warming<br \/>\nAre haply heeded<br \/>\nAnd no-one needs to wail<br \/>\nOr gnash his teeth,<br \/>\nMay I not be abusive \u2013<br \/>\nNay! I <em>shan&#8217;t<\/em> be indignant,<br \/>\nWhine,<br \/>\nOr sit and sulk<br \/>\nIn sackcloth and ashes<br \/>\nBeneath a wilted gourd,<br \/>\nBut shall rush to my garden<br \/>\nAnd plant a vine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jerusalem<br \/>\n4 December 2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, let me be a Jonah! Only, since I&#8217;ve refused to flee, When my tedious warnings About the Occupation And global warming Are haply heeded And no-one needs to wail Or gnash his teeth, May I not be abusive \u2013 Nay! I shan&#8217;t be indignant, Whine, Or sit and sulk In sackcloth and ashes Beneath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,34,12,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}