{"id":182,"date":"2010-11-14T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-11-15T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T13:51:09","slug":"the-bottom-line-genesis-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"The bottom line (Genesis 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Jacob knew something about genetics or epigenetics when he placed the peeled limbs in the watering troughs. Perhaps the LORD instructed Jacob to do it (even though it&#8217;s not mentioned) as an act of obedience preceding a miracle. The bottom line is this: that the LORD was determined to bless Jacob.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is often all that we can (or really need to) understand this side of eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Jacob knew something about genetics or epigenetics when he placed the peeled limbs in the watering troughs. Perhaps the LORD instructed Jacob to do it (even though it&#8217;s not mentioned) as an act of obedience preceding a miracle. The bottom line is this: that the LORD was determined to bless Jacob. The bottom line &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The bottom line (Genesis 30)&#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\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}