{"id":3357,"date":"2023-07-13T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:57:45","slug":"summer-songs-and-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/07\/summer-songs-and-sayings\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Songs and Sayings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of temperatures over 100 degrees, what do we have ahead?\u00a0 More days of the same.\u00a0 July is hot and dry.\u00a0 Even then, summer is the subject of lots of songs and sayings.\u00a0 Here are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.: James Dent<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRoll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.\u201d Sam Cooke<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSummertime and the livin&#8217; is easy.\u201d George Gershwin<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSummer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind.\u201d Jimmy Seals, Darrell Crofts<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.\u201d Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do\u201d \u2013 Walter Winchell<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDear Weather, Stop showing off. We get it, you\u2019re hot!\u201d\u00a0 El Arroyo Restaurant<\/li>\n<li>\u201cForget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.\u201d Rachel Cain<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSummer and winter and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness, To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love.\u201d Thomas O. Chisholm<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe harvest is finished, and the summer is gone, the people cry, \u2018yet we are not saved\u2019!\u201d Jeremiah 8:20 (New Living Translation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Dan R. Crawford, Senior Professor, Chair of Prayer Emeritus; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Former Head of Task Force for the Teaching of Prayer in Theological Education for America\u2019s National Prayer Committee.\u00a0 Administrative Consultant for the Valley Baptist Missions Education Center.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiIxFZI8RX4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiIxFZI8RX4<\/a>. Consider subscribing to the weekly Podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several days of temperatures over 100 degrees, what do we have ahead?\u00a0 More days of the same.\u00a0 July is hot and dry.\u00a0 Even then, summer is the subject of lots of songs and sayings.\u00a0 Here are some of my favorites: \u201cA perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}