{"id":2298,"date":"2012-10-24T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2012-10-26T19:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T23:39:53","slug":"number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"Number one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thus says the Lord: &#8220;Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land. And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 <em>Jeremiah 45:4-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear God, it is so natural to seek great things,\u00a0 so natural to look out for number one.\u00a0 There it is, the root of the problem.\u00a0 I am not number one.\u00a0 Holy God, you know me better than I know myself, and love me anyway.\u00a0 By your Spirit, grant me a clearer vision of just who you are.\u00a0 Alpha and Omega.\u00a0 First and the Last.\u00a0 Number One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus says the Lord: &#8220;Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land. And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh.&#8221;\u00a0 Jeremiah 45:4-5 Dear God, it is so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Number one&#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\/2298"}],"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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}