{"id":2726,"date":"2013-02-21T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2013-03-13T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T10:17:23","slug":"preserved-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"Preserved for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Now all the acts of his power and his might, and the account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him,\u00a0 are\u00a0 they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?\u00a0\u00a0 Esther 10:2<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The world could scarcely contain all the books about all the kings in all the lands through all the centuries.\u00a0 The story of Esther and Mordecai has been preserved for us for our instruction, that God the Lord is at work in the affairs of men, great and small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now all the acts of his power and his might, and the account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him,\u00a0 are\u00a0 they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?\u00a0\u00a0 Esther 10:2 The world could scarcely contain all the books about all the kings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preserved for us&#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\/2726"}],"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=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}