{"id":195,"date":"2008-05-27T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T13:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=195"},"modified":"2010-11-27T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T13:29:16","slug":"but-rather-rejoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"But rather rejoice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>&#8220;Now King David was old, advanced in years; and they put covers on him, but he could not get warm.&#8221; 1 Kings 1:1<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;Life is short.&#8221; No statement is more universally true, no matter <em>who<\/em> you are &#8211; a king, a peasant, among the famous, among the unknown.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But we should not lament the fact that life on earth is short, but rather rejoice in the hope of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Savior. So live, live today energized by that blessed hope.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now King David was old, advanced in years; and they put covers on him, but he could not get warm.&#8221; 1 Kings 1:1 \u00a0 &#8220;Life is short.&#8221; No statement is more universally true, no matter who you are &#8211; a king, a peasant, among the famous, among the unknown. \u00a0 But we should not lament &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But rather rejoice&#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\/195"}],"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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}