{"id":2245,"date":"2014-12-10T01:52:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2014-12-03T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T02:11:06","slug":"christ-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Christ Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are arguing who killed Christ?<br \/>\nRacked his bones,<br \/>\na good man,<br \/>\na decent man.<br \/>\nIf I told them life did,<br \/>\nthey would not believe me.<br \/>\nThey want to hate somebody.<br \/>\nThey want revenge.<br \/>\nTo wage war on people without weapons,<br \/>\nfarmers, mothers,<br \/>\nchildren playing by the road.<br \/>\nFor thousands of years<br \/>\ntheir fury has had no bounds,<br \/>\nas if they were denied a righteous murder.<\/p>\n<p>They revel in the Holocaust.<br \/>\nWhere do these predators live?<br \/>\nHow do we recognize their faces?<br \/>\nWhere were they born?<br \/>\nI pray when I look at my neighbors.<br \/>\nWho would cast the first stone?<br \/>\nWhat of this man,<br \/>\nwho forgave the torment of tormentors?<br \/>\nWho said,<br \/>\nhe was about his Father\u2019s business,<br \/>\nthe love of peace and goodness.<br \/>\nSo who kills innocents, down<br \/>\nthrough the ages,<br \/>\nand with blood upon their hands dare<br \/>\nclaim his love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are arguing who killed Christ? Racked his bones, a good man, a decent man. If I told them life did, they would not believe&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2245\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christ Killers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}