{"id":188,"date":"2010-11-20T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-11-20T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T01:11:52","slug":"esau-genesis-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Esau (Genesis 36)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esau was Isaac&#8217;s firstborn. He was the rightful heir to the special blessing given the oldest son. But the special blessing wasn&#8217;t special enough to Esau; he traded it away for a bowl of stew. <\/p>\n<p>Esau was a man of this world. Spiritual things apparently meant little to him. After the death of his father Isaac, he returned to Edom and became the father of a great nation, but sadly, a nation that seemingly followed in the footsteps of their patriarch, steps that led away from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esau was Isaac&#8217;s firstborn. He was the rightful heir to the special blessing given the oldest son. But the special blessing wasn&#8217;t special enough to Esau; he traded it away for a bowl of stew. Esau was a man of this world. Spiritual things apparently meant little to him. After the death of his father &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Esau (Genesis 36)&#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\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}