{"id":2777,"date":"2013-03-11T08:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2013-03-13T06:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T10:18:42","slug":"a-beautiful-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2777","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful tapestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.\u00a0\u00a0Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 1:10-11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Manasseh was a wicked king, of whom it is said\u00a0&#8220;he seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel!&#8221;\u00a0 And yet, he is mentioned here in the lineage of Joseph, along with the likes of Abraham, David and Jehoshaphat.<\/p>\n<p>Only God could weave a beautiful tapestry from such tattered, even filthy rags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.\u00a0\u00a0Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 1:10-11 Manasseh was a wicked king, of whom it is said\u00a0&#8220;he seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A beautiful tapestry&#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\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}