{"id":7557,"date":"2010-08-30T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:26:30","slug":"manasseh-meets-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7557","title":{"rendered":"Manasseh meets Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh became the king of Judah<br \/>\nWhen he was at the awkward age<br \/>\nOf twelve: neither child nor man.<br \/>\nHe reared up altars to Asheroth,<br \/>\nAnd to Baal, and other idols.<br \/>\nWhat was worse was when he burned<br \/>\nHis son. Old Elohim was pissed.<\/p>\n<p>Gotham City, capital of Judah,<br \/>\nIs now corrupt. The Caped Crusader<br \/>\nSuddenly appears, out from his cave,<br \/>\nprowling the streets in his Bat-chariot,<br \/>\nRobin at his side, Batgirl offstage.<br \/>\nManasseh doesn&#8217;t know what to make<br \/>\nOf Batman&#8217;s tights and weird mask.<\/p>\n<p>So he hauls off and hits him. Pow!<br \/>\nRobin fights Manasseh&#8217;s wizards.<br \/>\nWham! Batgirl swoops in next.<br \/>\nBash! Ka-zam! Fists are flying!<br \/>\nBut wait! Batman is tied to a stake!<br \/>\nSo are Robin and Batgirl! They struggle.<br \/>\nManasseh lights a fire around them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>2 Chron 33.1-9, with thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7549&#038;cpage=1#comment-77158\">Erp<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7549&#038;cpage=1#comment-77061\">Jean<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7561\"><em>Part II<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh became the king of Judah When he was at the awkward age Of twelve: neither child nor man. He reared up altars to Asheroth, And to Baal, and other idols. What was worse was when he burned His son. Old Elohim was pissed. Gotham City, capital of Judah, Is now corrupt. The Caped Crusader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[600,601],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","category-pop-culture","tag-batman","tag-manasseh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8204,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/8204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}