{"id":11713,"date":"2010-05-19T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-19T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:54:43","slug":"praying-for-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/19\/praying-for-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Marty Omoto reminded me of a song by George Michael called &#8220;Praying for Time.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The words are so moving and so relevant as we watch the destruction of the California dream. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xZXE8Fohj8M&#038;NR=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a portion of the lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><i>These are the days of the empty hand<\/p>\n<p>You hold on to what you can<\/p>\n<p>And charity is a coat you wear twice a year<\/p>\n<p>This is the year of the guilty man<\/p>\n<p>Your television takes a stand<\/p>\n<p>And you find out<\/p>\n<p>That what was over there is over here<\/p>\n<p>So you scream from behind your door<\/p>\n<p>Say what&#8217;s mine is mine and not yours<\/p>\n<p>I may have too much but I&#8217;ll take my chances<\/p>\n<p>Because God&#8217;s stopped keeping score<\/p>\n<p>And you cling to the things they sold you<\/p>\n<p>Did you cover your eyes when they told you<\/p>\n<p>That He can&#8217;t come back<\/p>\n<p>Because he has no children to come back for<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My good friend Marty Omoto reminded me of a song by George Michael called &#8220;Praying for Time.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The words are so moving and so relevant as we watch the destruction of the California dream. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xZXE8Fohj8M&#038;NR=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[3387,2001,467],"class_list":["post-11713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3387","tag-2001","tag-467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-32V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}