{"id":9733,"date":"2015-03-30T08:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2015-03-30T08:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:31:47","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-petrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-petrified\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: PETRIFIED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"petrified\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

PETRIFIED
\nAt the Passion poor Peter did thrice
\nDeny Him ere the cock could crow twice:
\nWhen we too face the Terror,
\nWill we make the same error
\nAnd insist that we never knew Christ?<\/p>\n

From the archive<\/em><\/p>\n

YOU TURN
\nDo you feel you\u2019ve been left in the lurch
\nAnd not found what you sought in your search?
\nWhy continue to roam
\nWhen it\u2019s time to come home?
\nWhy not join us this Easter in church?
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

SUFFRAGE
\nNow our enemies freely attack us \u2013
\nPillage, plunder, despoil, and ransack us \u2013
\nBut we once had a voice
\nAnd were offered a choice,
\nWhereupon we cried, \u201cGive us Barackus!\u201d
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

FULLNESS
\nThough they say it\u2019s a post-Christian time
\nAnd we follow a new paradigm,
\nThere are martyrs galore,
\nMore than ever before:
\nChristianity\u2019s now at its prime.
\n(2014)<\/p>\n

HE LIVES
\nDemons dread this day,
\nThey hate to hear us say
\nYear after year
\nThe phrase they fear:
\n\u00a1Viva Cristo Rey!
\n(2013)<\/p>\n

WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION
\n\u201cCan I get a tattoo, Dad?\u201d said she.
\n\u201cIt can be quite expensive,\u201d said he.
\n\u201cWhy not wait and emboss
\nOn your forearm a cross?
\nLet the government do it for free.\u201d
\n(2012)<\/p>\n

IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
\nRaise high the holy cross
\nAnd show them Who is boss:
\nFight the merchants of death
\nWith every breath
\nAnd never count the cost.
\n(2012)<\/p>\n

GOOD FRIDAY
\nWhen tornadoes come whirling your way,
\nYou get down on your knees and you pray:
\nYou\u2019re just glad you\u2019re not dead,
\nHave a roof overhead \u2013
\nNothing else seems to matter that day.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

HOLY WEEK
\nSo begins the passion play:
\nEvil triumphs for a day,
\nBut Friday\u2019s cross
\nRedeems our loss
\nAnd confirms us in the Way.
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

NATIVITY
\nTell me how can an innocent Child \u2013
\nHoly Infant, so tender and mild \u2013
\nBe the object of scorn
\nFrom the moment He\u2019s born:
\nRejected, resented, reviled?
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

MEA CULPA
\nHow fully prim piety fails
\nAnd scarcely scapegoating avails
\nWhen I add my own ration
\nTo Christ\u2019s frightful passion
\nAnd with my hands help drive in the nails.
\n(2004)<\/p>\n

PASSION
\nCritics say it\u2019s a judgmental story
\nWith scenes that are overly gory,
\nBut that\u2019s what you\u2019re liable
\nTo read in the Bible
\nOf sacrifice leading to glory.
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

P.C. (POST CHRISTIAN)
\nThe other children teased her
\nFor being a faithful feaster:
\nWhen the pagan takes
\nHis seasonal breaks,
\nShe celebrates Christmas and Easter.
\n(2002)<\/p>\n

SCHADENFREUDE
\nWhy do liberals like to besmirch
\nInstitutions confirmed by research
\nAs conducive to wealth,
\nHappiness, and health \u2013
\nSuch as marriage, the family, and church?
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

BASKET CASE
\nMy obesity just isn\u2019t funny
\nAnd I\u2019m suing for bundles of money:
\nWhen a basket of candy
\nIs too full and too handy,
\nWho\u2019s to blame but the old Easter Bunny?
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

POSITION STATEMENT
\nWhile walking with the abbot,
\nWhich was his daily habit,
\nA monk who spied
\nHares side by side
\nSaid, \u201cThat\u2019s the east-er rabbit!\u201d
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

Last week’s limerick<\/em><\/p>\n

THE LAST TO KNOW
\n\u201cI’m appalled by these clandestine capers,
\nSo much so that I’m feeling the vapors:
\nI hadn’t a clue
\nI was running a zoo
\n‘Til I read of these things in the papers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: PETRIFIED At the Passion poor Peter did thrice Deny Him ere the cock could crow twice: When we too face the Terror, Will we make the same error And insist that we never knew Christ? From …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: PETRIFIED - Politickles","description":"Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: PETRIFIED At the Passion poor Peter did thrice Deny Him ere the cock could cro"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2028,3050,1233,4178,588,1200,3051,3757,1442,4825,4824,2442,7,4473],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apostasy","tag-christs-passion","tag-christian-martyrs","tag-easter-limerick","tag-fr-duplantier","tag-holy-week","tag-passion-of-christ","tag-persecuting-christians","tag-persecution-of-the-church","tag-peters-denial","tag-petrified","tag-political-limerick","tag-politickle","tag-post-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}