{"id":2693,"date":"2013-02-11T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2013-02-13T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T13:29:07","slug":"both-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"Both are important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.\u00a0 <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.\u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 126:5-6<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The joy and the rejoicing appeal to us more than the tears and the weeping.\u00a0 But both are important, even necessary, in the life of a disciple of Christ.\u00a0 He was the Man of Sorrows.\u00a0 He was acquainted with grief.\u00a0 And He has promised to fill us with joy unspeakable and full of glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.\u00a0 \u00a0He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.\u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 126:5-6 The joy and the rejoicing appeal to us more than the tears and the weeping.\u00a0 But both are important, even necessary, in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Both are important&#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\/2693"}],"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=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}