{"id":5994,"date":"2012-12-29T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2012-12-29T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:59:51","slug":"christians-and-patriots-ending-2012-with-sounds-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/christians-and-patriots-ending-2012-with-sounds-of-silence.html","title":{"rendered":"Christians and Patriots ending 2012 with sounds of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the best way to end the New Year for Christians and Patriots is with a few minutes of <a title=\"Simon and Garfundel Music\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandgarfunkel.com\/us\/music\/sounds-silence\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sounds of Silence.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> (under &#8220;track listings&#8221; just click on the left button to hear the song.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sounds of Silence, by Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello darkness, my old friend,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come to talk with you again,<br \/>\nBecause a vision softly creeping,<br \/>\nLeft its seeds while I was sleeping,<br \/>\nAnd the vision that was planted in my brain<br \/>\nStill remains<br \/>\nWithin the sound of silence.<\/p>\n<p>In restless dreams I walk alone<br \/>\nNarrow streets of cobblestone,<br \/>\n&#8216;Neath the halo of a street lamp,<br \/>\nI turned my collar to the cold and damp<br \/>\nWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light<br \/>\nThat split the night<br \/>\nAnd touched the sound of silence.<\/p>\n<p>And in the naked light I saw<br \/>\nTen thousand people, maybe more.<br \/>\nPeople talking without speaking,<br \/>\nPeople hearing without listening,<br \/>\nPeople writing songs that voices never share<br \/>\nAnd no one dared<br \/>\nDisturb the sound of silence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fools&#8221; said I,&#8221;You do not know<br \/>\nSilence like a cancer grows.<br \/>\nHear my words that I might teach you,<br \/>\nTake my arms that I might reach you.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut my words like silent raindrops fell,<br \/>\nAnd echoed<br \/>\nIn the wells of silence<\/p>\n<p>And the people bowed and prayed<br \/>\nTo the neon god they made.<br \/>\nAnd the sign flashed out its warning,<br \/>\nIn the words that it was forming.<br \/>\nAnd the signs said, &#8216;The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls<br \/>\nAnd tenement halls.<br \/>\nAnd whisper&#8217;d in the sounds of silence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christians and patriots should now observe 60 seconds of silence to reflect upon the damage done to this nation in 2012 through the actions of immoral people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this coming new year will the moral people of America finally stand up for God and country or remain in their sounds of silence?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the best way to end the New Year for Christians and Patriots is with a few minutes of Sounds of Silence.\u00a0 (under &#8220;track listings&#8221; just click on the left button to hear the song.) Sounds of Silence, by Simon &amp; Garfunkel Hello darkness, my old friend, I&#8217;ve come to talk with you again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[148,342,167,138,112],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amoral-society","tag-america","tag-apostasy","tag-food-for-thought","tag-freedoms-and-liberties","tag-good-and-evil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-1yG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}