{"id":1294,"date":"2012-01-27T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2012-01-28T10:54:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T14:54:54","slug":"2-kings-17-we-become-what-we-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"(2 Kings 17) We become what we worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the Israelites would not listen. They were as stubborn as their ancestors who had refused to believe in the Lord their God.\u00a0\u00a0They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they despised all his warnings. <em>They worshiped worthless idols, so they became worthless themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Someone has rightly said that we become what we\u00a0worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the Israelites would not listen. They were as stubborn as their ancestors who had refused to believe in the Lord their God.\u00a0\u00a0They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and they despised all his warnings. They worshiped worthless idols, so they became worthless themselves. Someone has rightly said that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Kings 17) We become what we worship&#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\/1294"}],"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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}