{"id":2318,"date":"2012-10-31T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-11-01T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:29:58","slug":"shut-up-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Shut up and listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>O earth, earth, earth&#8212;hear the word of the Lord!\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 22:29<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word of the Lord is the gospel.\u00a0 It is a clear word.\u00a0 But it is not, relatively speaking, a loud word.\u00a0 There is loudness&#8212;noise&#8212;all around us.\u00a0 Bombarding our ears.\u00a0 Inside our heads.\u00a0 The word of the Lord, the gospel,\u00a0is really that still, small voice crying in the wilderness of our everyday life:\u00a0 &#8220;Prepare ye the way of the Lord.\u00a0 Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shut up and listen, and obey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O earth, earth, earth&#8212;hear the word of the Lord!\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 22:29 The word of the Lord is the gospel.\u00a0 It is a clear word.\u00a0 But it is not, relatively speaking, a loud word.\u00a0 There is loudness&#8212;noise&#8212;all around us.\u00a0 Bombarding our ears.\u00a0 Inside our heads.\u00a0 The word of the Lord, the gospel,\u00a0is really that still, small &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shut up and listen&#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\/2318"}],"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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}