{"id":2783,"date":"2013-03-12T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2013-03-14T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T12:29:37","slug":"who-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Who weeps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying:\u00a0 A voice was heard in Ramah,\u00a0 lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 2:16-18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did anyone besides Rachel weep for her murdered children?\u00a0 Did the people of Bethlehem go on about their business the very next day?\u00a0 Who weeps for the murders, the injustices that daily fill the news?\u00a0 God weeps.\u00a0 His saints should weep too<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who weeps?&#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\/2783"}],"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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}