{"id":5258,"date":"2006-04-30T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/04\/30\/if-daniel-was-exiled-to-florida\/"},"modified":"2006-04-30T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T18:31:10","slug":"if-daniel-was-exiled-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/04\/if-daniel-was-exiled-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"If Daniel was exiled to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">If you read the Divine Office you become quite familiar with the Canticle from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccbuscc.org\/nab\/bible\/daniel\/daniel3.htm\">Daniel 3:57<\/a> which gets heavy rotation (liturgical payola involved?). It contains such phrases as &quot;Cold and chill, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all forever, Frost and chill, bless the Lord. Ice and snow, bless the Lord, Mountains and hills, bless the Lord.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Now being a resident of Florida these passages normally don&#8217;t speak to me, so I pondered what if Daniel had been exiled to Florida instead? What might he have written in those circumstances?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Heat and humidity, bless the Lord<br \/>\npraise and exalt him above all forever<br \/>\nGators and geckos, bless the Lord<br \/>\nLack of mountains and hills, bless the Lord<br \/>\nSwamps  and wetlands, bless the Lord<br \/>\nThunderstorms and hurricanes, bless the Lord<br \/>\nYou Manatees and all water creatures, bless the Lord<br \/>\nBirds of the air and tourists flying South, bless the Lord<br \/>\nFireants and giant cockroaches, bless the Lord<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the Divine Office you become quite familiar with the Canticle from Daniel 3:57 which gets heavy rotation (liturgical payola involved?). It contains such phrases as &quot;Cold and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}