{"id":1109,"date":"2011-11-22T08:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2011-11-22T08:05:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T12:05:38","slug":"song-of-solomon-2-the-lily-of-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"(Song of Solomon 2) The Lily of the Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain, the lily of the valley.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He (Christ) is the Lily of the valley&#8217;, as the old hymn goes, &#8216;the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.&#8217;  But He is also the Lily <strong>in<\/strong><em><\/em> the valley, signifying the perseverance, promise and purpose available to us even in the most difficult of circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain, the lily of the valley.&#8221; &#8216;He (Christ) is the Lily of the valley&#8217;, as the old hymn goes, &#8216;the fairest of ten thousand to my soul.&#8217; But He is also the Lily in the valley, signifying the perseverance, promise and purpose available to us even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1109\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Song of Solomon 2) The Lily of the Valley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}