{"id":286,"date":"2012-11-19T03:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:45:53","slug":"286-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=286","title":{"rendered":"Samson&#8217;s Song (and mine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F67970532&visual=true\"><\/iframe>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>I have wondered how I could have blundered<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Into this world of Philistine corruption.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>I carelessly wandered, my strength then I squandered<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>And fell into an obvious seduction.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>The idols remind me that I let them blind me<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>With my own acceptance of evil.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Ah&#8230; I dwell in the temple of Dagon.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>I look &#8217;round me, corruptions astound me,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Yet all are my own toys and treasures.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>It was senseless, yet I chose the temptress<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Who taught me to worship my own pleasures.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>My strength to resist no longer exists<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>I have sold it for a vain self-indulgence.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Ah&#8230; I dwell in the temple of Dagon.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>[Instrumental]<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>I was warned, yet I quickly conformed<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>To a culture that murders its own children.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Ah&#8230; I dwell in the temple of Dagon.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Lord, I should fight with this Philistine nightmare,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Yet I yield to its ruthless insistence.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Lord, don&#8217;t abandon me; come again and stand in me,<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Resurrect my strength of resistance.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>My hands on the pillars, Lord, give me the will here<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>To pull down this temple upon myself.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address lang=\"zxx\"><strong>Ah&#8230; I dwell in the temple of Dagon.<\/strong><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wondered how I could have blundered Into this world of Philistine corruption. I carelessly wandered, my strength then I squandered And fell into an obvious seduction. The idols remind me that I let them blind me With my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/?page_id=286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kentrichter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}