{"id":1450,"date":"2012-03-09T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T11:56:00","slug":"psalm-121-the-nearness-of-our-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 121) The nearness of our God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 your keeper; the Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Never forget the nearness of our God.\u00a0 He is nearer to us than any calamity, than any circumstance.\u00a0 He is the shade at our right hand on the hottest day. The secret to all spiritual growth is the increasing ability (by the grace of the Holy Spirit) to practice the presence of God&#8212;every day and every hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 your keeper; the Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. Never forget the nearness of our God.\u00a0 He is nearer to us than any calamity, than any circumstance.\u00a0 He is the shade at our right hand on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 121) The nearness of our God&#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\/1450"}],"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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}