{"id":2699,"date":"2013-02-12T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T13:30:05","slug":"queen-vashti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Queen Vashti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,\u00a0\u00a0to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to show her beauty to the people and the officials, for she was beautiful to behold.\u00a0But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king\u2019s command brought by his eunuchs; therefore the king was furious, and his anger burned within him.\u00a0\u00a0 Esther 1:10-12<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We do not know why Queen Vashti refused to come at the king&#8217;s command.\u00a0 But such a thing was <em>not<\/em> done without dire consequences.\u00a0 Queen Vashti would be queen no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,\u00a0\u00a0to bring Queen Vashti before the king, wearing her royal crown, in order to show her beauty to the people and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Queen Vashti&#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\/2699"}],"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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}