{"id":2087,"date":"2012-09-01T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2012-09-04T12:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:34:35","slug":"hosea-3-love-never-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"(Hosea 3) Love never fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Then the Lord said to me, \u201cGo again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans&#8230;.For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or <em>sacred<\/em> pillar, without ephod or teraphim.\u00a0Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The entire Old Testament is a story of failure, yet there is God&#8217;s promise of success. Israel&#8217;s failure.\u00a0\u00a0Turning away to idols.\u00a0 God&#8217;s going after them.\u00a0 Pursuing them.\u00a0 Putting up with them.\u00a0 Love never fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the Lord said to me, \u201cGo again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans&#8230;.For the children of Israel shall abide many days without &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2087\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Hosea 3) Love never fails&#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\/2087"}],"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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}