{"id":3884,"date":"2008-07-23T10:38:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2008-07-23T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:40:10","slug":"twittering-in-the-old-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/twittering-in-the-old-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittering in the Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chadcrawford\">@chadcrawford<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/just_pete\">@just_pete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Appears both the prophet Isaiah and the Psalmist both Twittered way back in the day:<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 102 (MSG)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wasting away to nothing,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m burning up with fever.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a ghost of my former self,<br \/>\nhalf-consumed already by terminal illness.<br \/>\nMy jaws ache from gritting my teeth;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m nothing but skin and bones.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m like a buzzard in the desert,<br \/>\na crow perched on the rubble.<br \/>\n<strong>Insomniac, I twitter away,<br \/>\nmournful as a sparrow in the gutter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 38 (NASB)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter;<\/strong><br \/>\nI moan like a dove;<br \/>\nMy eyes look wistfully to the heights;<br \/>\nO Lord, I am oppressed, be my security. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a herf=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\">biblegateway.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to @chadcrawford and @just_pete. Appears both the prophet Isaiah and the Psalmist both Twittered way back in the day: Psalm 102 (MSG) I&#8217;m wasting away to nothing, I&#8217;m burning up with fever. I&#8217;m a ghost of my former self, half-consumed already by terminal illness. My jaws ache from gritting my teeth; I&#8217;m nothing but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/twittering-in-the-old-testament\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twittering in the Old Testament<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,21,12],"tags":[1294,1301,1300,221],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-humor","category-techno","tag-isaiah","tag-psalmist","tag-scripture","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-10E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}