{"id":15697,"date":"2011-12-18T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingsmeadow.com\/?guid=92ebd15c3f26c8609e715caa12035193"},"modified":"2015-08-14T02:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T02:09:01","slug":"comfort-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/comfort-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort, Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zZjZKW5ExBg\/Tu58cPNYYKI\/AAAAAAAABzM\/xTw07d5cv1Q\/s1600\/Comfort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-zZjZKW5ExBg\/Tu58cPNYYKI\/AAAAAAAABzM\/xTw07d5cv1Q\/s400\/Comfort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Comfort, comfort ye my people,<br \/>\nspeak ye peace, thus saith our God;<br \/>\ncomfort those who sit in darkness,<br \/>\nmourning &#8216;neath their sorrow&#8217;s load;<br \/>\nspeak ye to Jerusalem<br \/>\nof the peace that waits for them;<br \/>\ntell her that her sins I cover,<br \/>\nand her warfare now is over.<\/p>\n<p>For the herald&#8217;s voice is crying<br \/>\nin the desert far and near,<br \/>\nbidding all men to repentance,<br \/>\nsince the kingdom now is here.<br \/>\nO that warning cry obey!<br \/>\nNow prepare for God a way!<br \/>\nLet the valleys rise to meet him,<br \/>\nand the hills bow down to greet him.<\/p>\n<p>Make ye straight what long was crooked,<br \/>\nmake the rougher places plain:<br \/>\nlet your hearts be true and humble,<br \/>\nas befits his holy reign,<br \/>\nFor the glory of the Lord<br \/>\nnow o&#8217;er the earth is shed abroad,<br \/>\nand all flesh shall see the token<br \/>\nthat his word is never broken.<\/p>\n<p><i>Johann G. Olearius, 1671;\u00a0trans. Catherine Winkworth, 1863<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5123697-7941641867625711351?l=grantian.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comfort, comfort ye my people,speak ye peace, thus saith our God;comfort those who sit in darkness,mourning &#8216;neath their sorrow&#8217;s load;speak ye to Jerusalemof the peace that waits for them;tell her that her sins I cover,and her warfare now is over.For &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,765],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grantianflorilegium","category-music","tag-catherine-winkworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34119,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/34119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingsmeadow.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}