{"id":98,"date":"2006-07-25T15:22:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/2006\/07\/25\/a-worthy-king\/"},"modified":"2014-04-12T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T11:12:18","slug":"a-worthy-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/a-worthy-king\/","title":{"rendered":"A Worthy King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I were asked to find a worthy king<br \/>For a once proud people wracked by self-contempt,<br \/>I&#8217;d choose a man with bent the Jews have termed<br \/>Prophetic: meaning not clairvoyant brain,<br \/>But stubborn mind to serve eternal truths<br \/>In face of fashion&#8217;s brazen tyranny<br \/>And scandal-sniffing vultures of the news.<br \/>A worthy king, however, would know shame<br \/>(The sort that Adam tasted when he fell)<br \/>And, like poor naked Lear, have stood before<br \/>The absolute abyss while being yet<br \/>More sinned against than sinning; fortune&#8217;s fool.<br \/>In short my king would understand most well<br \/>The nation&#8217;s cares, for they are but his own.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jerusalem<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5 October 1994<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were asked to find a worthy kingFor a once proud people wracked by self-contempt,I&#8217;d choose a man with bent the Jews have termedProphetic: meaning not clairvoyant brain,But stubborn mind to serve eternal truthsIn face of fashion&#8217;s brazen tyrannyAnd scandal-sniffing vultures of the news.A worthy king, however, would know shame(The sort that Adam tasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}