{"id":583,"date":"2006-03-05T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/05\/solomon-and-the-black-eyed-peas\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T02:55:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T10:55:57","slug":"solomon-and-the-black-eyed-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/05\/solomon-and-the-black-eyed-peas","title":{"rendered":"Solomon and the Black Eyed&nbsp;Peas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People often mock the Song of Songs for having bizarre romantic imagery. Song of Solomon 7:4 is a notorious example: \u201cyour nose is like the tower of Lebanon\u201d (to which I always want to add \u201cwhich means you can think of that zit as more of a banner, if you prefer\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Stuff like that keeps many from taking the Song of Solomon seriously as a love song. We obsess over the pictures that the song employs and fail to get the&nbsp;point.<\/p>\n<p>And we act as though we\u2019ve never seen such outlandish imagery before. Then without even realizing it we turn the radio on and hear the Commodores belting out \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlyrics.com\/lyrics\/undercoverbrother\/brickhouse.htm\">she\u2019s a brick house<\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popandpolitics.com?she_s_the_man\">she s the man dvdrip<\/a><\/p>\n<p> .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the cultural smackdown between us and the ancient near east, I have to give this round to the ancients. Which would you rather be called? A tower is slender, graceful, and curved. A brick house is short, squat, and angular. Quite frankly, we have no stones to&nbsp;throw.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s that way throughout the&nbsp;Song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the next time you hear the Black Eyed Peas inquiring about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/blackeyedpeas\/myhumps.html\">junk in your trunk<\/a>, cut the Song of Solomon some slack and interpret it the way you would interpret any other love song\u2013poetically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often mock the Song of Songs for having bizarre romantic imagery. Song of Solomon 7:4 is a notorious example: \u201cyour nose is like the tower of Lebanon\u201d (to which I always want to add \u201cwhich means you can think of that zit as more of a banner, if you prefer\u201d). Stuff like that keeps \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/05\/solomon-and-the-black-eyed-peas\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSolomon and the Black Eyed&nbsp;Peas\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-nuggets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}