{"id":143,"date":"2010-10-06T21:06:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T01:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-10-06T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T01:06:27","slug":"not-a-game-at-all-job-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Not a game at all (Job 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All four of them sitting in the tent would agree on one thing &#8211; that whatever God is doing here with Job, it is <em>God<\/em> doing it. It is not just a terrible run of bad luck. It is not just the way the cookie crumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Life is not a curious, sometimes painful set of cards dealt to us by the blind Hand of fate; we&#8217;re left to play them the best way we can.<\/p>\n<p>Life is not a game at all. It is more like a test than a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four of them sitting in the tent would agree on one thing &#8211; that whatever God is doing here with Job, it is God doing it. It is not just a terrible run of bad luck. It is not just the way the cookie crumbles. Life is not a curious, sometimes painful set of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a game at all (Job 22)&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}