{"id":2675,"date":"2013-02-07T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2013-02-10T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T02:22:00","slug":"protection-from-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Protection from ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, &#8220;The hand of our God\u00a0 is\u00a0 upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.&#8221;\u00a0 So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.\u00a0\u00a0 Ezra 8:22-23<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lord of Hosts honored the prayer of Ezra, and those with them, and gave them protection from ambush along the road to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, &#8220;The hand of our God\u00a0 is\u00a0 upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Protection from ambush&#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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}