{"id":6534,"date":"2017-04-13T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2017-04-13T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T23:18:24","slug":"plowshares-and-swords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6534","title":{"rendered":"Plowshares and Swords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Maundy Thursday, while that jackass occupying the White House and his sycophants spread violence and hate and it seems they are leading us down the road to a global holocaust, I found myself thinking of this verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again will they learn war.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Isaiah 2:4<\/p>\n<p>Thousands and thousands will die because we put weapons of mass destruction in the hands of this incompetent fool.  As for me, I&#8217;ve laid down my sword and shield and I won&#8217;t study war.  I won&#8217;t fight, and I won&#8217;t support or admire those who do.<\/p>\n<p>Enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Maundy Thursday, while that jackass occupying the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}