{"id":56,"date":"1984-06-26T21:02:31","date_gmt":"1984-06-27T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:17:32","slug":"death-of-a-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1984\/06\/26\/death-of-a-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He raised his sumptuous basilicas,<br \/>\nForgot the living temple of the spirit itself.<br \/>\nPaid his homage to the Lord<br \/>\nAs Romans, proud, revered a statue of Jupiter:<br \/>\nSeeking to bribe Heaven&#8217;s powers<br \/>\nWith the size of material offerings.<\/p>\n<p>He forgot the human heart,<br \/>\nBelittled the spirit of humanity,<br \/>\nIgnoring afflictions<br \/>\nOf those he was sent to serve.<br \/>\nStill blind to his folly,<br \/>\nOn his death bed he waits for<br \/>\nA fantastic heaven, in which to enthrone<br \/>\nHis criminal vanity, and his cruel laziness.<\/p>\n<p>What a shock when he died<br \/>\nAnd there wasn&#8217;t the heaven!<br \/>\nWhat a shock when he died<br \/>\nAnd there wasn&#8217;t the heaven!<br \/>\nOnly a reality &#8211;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;d created his hell.<\/p>\n<p>Now to answer for his folly,<br \/>\nHis misguided use of institutional power.<br \/>\nDid he love and serve his people?<br \/>\nOr feed off their fear of the unknown?<br \/>\nWhy did he need his building to find God?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s wrong? was He not there in his heart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He raised his sumptuous basilicas,<br \/> Forgot the living temple of the spirit itself.<br \/> Paid his homage to the Lord<br \/> As Romans, proud, revered a statue of Jupiter:<br \/> Seeking to bribe Heaven&#8217;s powers<br \/> With the size of material offerings.<\/p>\n<p>He forgot the human heart,<br \/> Belittled the spirit of humanity,<br \/> Ignoring afflictions<br \/> Of those [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}