{"id":1769,"date":"2012-06-14T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2012-06-17T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T19:29:10","slug":"joel-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"(Joel 3) The choice is ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 near in the valley of decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Choices. We don&#8217;t choose the place of our birth.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t choose our family. We don&#8217;t choose our looks, our smarts, or our athletic ability. But (and unless our <em>actual<\/em> interaction with God is counter-intuitive) we do choose for the Lord or against Him. The choice is ours to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord\u00a0 is\u00a0 near in the valley of decision. Choices. We don&#8217;t choose the place of our birth.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t choose our family. We don&#8217;t choose our looks, our smarts, or our athletic ability. But (and unless our actual interaction with God is counter-intuitive) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Joel 3) The choice is ours&#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\/1769"}],"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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}