{"id":2396,"date":"2012-11-22T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2012-11-23T07:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T11:35:31","slug":"read-the-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Read the Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Pray for us to the Lord your God, for all this remnant (since we are left\u00a0but\u00a0 a few of many, as you can see), that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 42:2-3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However insincere this particular petition may have been, the words echo the prayer of saints down through the centuries.\u00a0 Meek and lowly people, sinners all, but pioneers for the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like learn more about those who blazed the trail, so to speak, in Christian history, join with me and others as we read the church fathers, beginning December 2nd, the first Sunday in Advent.\u00a0 For more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/ReadTheFathers.org\">http:\/\/ReadTheFathers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pray for us to the Lord your God, for all this remnant (since we are left\u00a0but\u00a0 a few of many, as you can see), that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah 42:2-3 However insincere this particular petition may have been, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Read the Fathers&#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\/2396"}],"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=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}