{"id":184,"date":"2010-11-16T22:51:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T02:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=184"},"modified":"2010-11-17T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T11:59:23","slug":"life-changing-prayer-genesis-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Life-changing prayer (Genesis 32)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob wrestled with a &#8220;man&#8221; &#8211; an angel of God -all night long, and prevailed. In so doing, his name was changed to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Who started the fight? Jacob had prayed earnestly earlier that day, appealing to God&#8217;s faithfulness and his promises to him and to his father and grandfather before him. Apparently, Jacob&#8217;s appeals became more fervent as the day wore on.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps earnest, life-changing prayer is a lot like a wrestling match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob wrestled with a &#8220;man&#8221; &#8211; an angel of God -all night long, and prevailed. In so doing, his name was changed to Israel. Who started the fight? Jacob had prayed earnestly earlier that day, appealing to God&#8217;s faithfulness and his promises to him and to his father and grandfather before him. Apparently, Jacob&#8217;s appeals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life-changing prayer (Genesis 32)&#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\/184"}],"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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}