{"id":1449,"date":"2012-03-08T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2012-03-08T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:46:00","slug":"psalm-120-it-takes-perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 120) It takes perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I\u00a0 am for\u00a0 peace; but when I speak, they are for war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We may not really\u00a0 have enemies as David did. But if we do, we should love them. Do good to them. The kindness of God displayed through our actions may lead them to repentance.<\/p>\n<p>But it takes perseverance. A winsome approach. And a lot of prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0 am for\u00a0 peace; but when I speak, they are for war. We may not really\u00a0 have enemies as David did. But if we do, we should love them. Do good to them. The kindness of God displayed through our actions may lead them to repentance. But it takes perseverance. A winsome approach. And a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 120) It takes perseverance&#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\/1449"}],"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=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}