{"id":3754,"date":"2005-10-19T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2005-10-19T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T21:26:14","slug":"letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member that XTC song &#8220;Dear God&#8221; &#8211; that starts with the child singing?  I love that song.<\/p>\n<p>Dear god,<br \/>\nHope you got the letter,<br \/>\nAnd I pray you can make it better down here.<br \/>\nI don\u0092t mean a big reduction in the price of beer,<br \/>\nBut all the people that you made in your image,<br \/>\nSee them starving on their feet,<br \/>\n\u0092cause they don\u0092t get enough to eat<\/p>\n<p>From god,<br \/>\nI can\u0092t believe in you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; all of this is a prelude to a gorgeous and funny and touching post over at Alex&#8217;s &#8211; featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/120828.html\">letters to God from children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful post &#8211; have fun.  They&#8217;re great to read!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In bible times did people really talk that fancy?&#8221; is just one example.<\/p>\n<p>The one note from Elliott actually brought a strange lump to my throat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member that XTC song &#8220;Dear God&#8221; &#8211; that starts with the child singing? I love that song. Dear god, Hope you got the letter, And I pray you can make it better down here. I don\u0092t mean a big reduction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3754\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}