{"id":3731,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2022-03-10T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:49:16","slug":"two-poems-one-to-chew-on-and-one-to-lick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/two-poems-one-to-chew-on-and-one-to-lick\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems: One to Chew on and One to Lick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Poems:  One to Chew on and One to Lick<br \/>\nBy Kenneth Chafin<\/p>\n<p>Today`s Prophet<\/p>\n<p>If he were operating<br \/>\non the State Fair Midway,<br \/>\nThey would call him<br \/>\n&quot;Fast Eddie,&quot;<br \/>\nbut since he pastors<br \/>\nbig city churches,<br \/>\nthey just call him<br \/>\n&quot;Doctor What`s-His-Name.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He read books<br \/>\nand collected ideas<br \/>\nfor his sermons,<br \/>\nbut his teflon mind<br \/>\nkept the ideas<br \/>\nfrom coloring convictions.<br \/>\nHe developed thick<br \/>\ncalluses on his soul<br \/>\nfrom straddling fences.<\/p>\n<p>From the pulpit<br \/>\nhe urged the people<br \/>\nto resist culture`s mold,<br \/>\nbut they modeled after him<br \/>\nand sought safe stances<br \/>\non complex issues of life.<br \/>\nThey never understood,<br \/>\nnor did their leader,<br \/>\nwhy the church seemed<br \/>\nso irrelevant to outsiders,<br \/>\nand ofttimes to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Eskimo Pie<\/p>\n<p>There are days<br \/>\nwhen the juices flow<br \/>\na mile a minute<br \/>\nand I can do<br \/>\nanything I try.<\/p>\n<p>And there are days<br \/>\nand this is one of them<br \/>\nwhen the most I can do<br \/>\nis stand in the sun<br \/>\nin front of the store<br \/>\nand eat an Eskimo Pie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Poems: One to Chew on and One to Lick By Kenneth Chafin Today`s Prophet If he were ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}