{"id":657,"date":"2010-11-03T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T04:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:31","slug":"peace-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/peace-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>From Alameda Riddle<\/h5>\n<p>From <em>Sing Out!<\/em> Magazine (vol. 30 #2, 1984, p.62)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Dear heavenly Father, so deign to hear us<br \/>\nAnd order this warfare to cease<br \/>\nOh grant, gracious, Lord, the ushering in<br \/>\nOf the dawn of a world-wide peace.<em>Chorus<br \/>\n<\/em>Peace, peace<br \/>\nSweet dove of peace let your white wings encircle our whole globe<br \/>\nOh God, how I prayed<br \/>\nAnd I still hope each day<br \/>\nFor the dawn of a world-wide peace.<\/li>\n<li>Grant that all nations may ground arms of war<br \/>\nAnd make room in their hearts for peace<br \/>\nHelping each other to heal and forgive<br \/>\nThat warfare and strife might cease.<\/li>\n<li>Ending the slaughter, of bloodthirsty rulers<br \/>\nOf our husbands, fathers, daughters and our sons<br \/>\nOh grant that sweet rivers of peace may soon flow<br \/>\nWhere the blood of our own now runs.<\/li>\n<li>Turning their weapons of war into plowshares<br \/>\nAnd sowing the battlefields in wheat<br \/>\nFeeding the hungry of every nation<br \/>\nAnd living at last in peace.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alameda Riddle From Sing Out! Magazine (vol. 30 #2, 1984, p.62) Dear heavenly Father, so deign to hear us And order this warfare to cease Oh grant, gracious, Lord, the ushering in Of the dawn of a world-wide peace.Chorus Peace, peace Sweet dove of peace let your white wings encircle our whole globe Oh&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}