{"id":218,"date":"2010-12-19T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T12:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=218"},"modified":"2010-12-19T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T02:50:00","slug":"life-itself-is-like-a-journey-exodus-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Life itself is like a journey (Exodus 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life itself is like a journey through a wilderness. Sometimes you set up camp by an oasis, as the Israelites did at Elim. Sometimes you push on until you find water, only to be disheartened when it is bitter to drink, as was the case at Marah.<\/p>\n<p>God is either leading us or he is not. But he is <em>not<\/em> leading us one day, and abandoning us the next. That he is not doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life itself is like a journey through a wilderness. Sometimes you set up camp by an oasis, as the Israelites did at Elim. Sometimes you push on until you find water, only to be disheartened when it is bitter to drink, as was the case at Marah. God is either leading us or he is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life itself is like a journey (Exodus 15)&#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\/218"}],"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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}