{"id":5686,"date":"2015-08-07T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:54:00","slug":"dying-inch-by-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5686","title":{"rendered":"DYING INCH BY INCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recently, I listened to a sermon by Howard Hendricks.\u00a0 Hendricks taught for sixty years at Dallas Theological Seminary.\u00a0 He died in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0 In the message, Hendricks described one of his favorite poems, \u201cThe Night They Burned Shanghai\u201d by Robert Abrahams.\u00a0 It tells of a couple driving to play Bridge with some of their friends.\u00a0 As they are en route they survey what is going on in the world.\u00a0 The luxury of playing Bridge is juxtaposed with various world tragedies.\u00a0 The poem ends with these arresting lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonight Shanghai is burning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And we are dying too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What bomb more surely mortal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Than death inside of you\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For some men die by shrapnel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And some go down in flames<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But most men perish inch by inch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In play at little games.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I listened to a sermon by Howard Hendricks.\u00a0 Hendricks taught for sixty years at Dallas Theological Seminary.\u00a0 He died in 2013.\u00a0\u00a0 In the message, Hendricks described one of his favorite poems, \u201cThe Night They Burned Shanghai\u201d by Robert Abrahams.\u00a0 It tells of a couple driving to play Bridge with some of their friends.\u00a0 As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5688,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}