{"id":2839,"date":"2013-03-23T08:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:32:18","slug":"very-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"Very near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 13:22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What kind of soil am I, really?\u00a0 Even in &#8220;good&#8221; soil, it seems, one can easily dig up stones and thorns.\u00a0 The cares of this world\u00a0are just a thought away.\u00a0 But so is &#8220;the word [that] is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it&#8221;.\u00a0 Lord, help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 13:22 What kind of soil am I, really?\u00a0 Even in &#8220;good&#8221; soil, it seems, one can easily dig up stones and thorns.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Very near&#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\/2839"}],"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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}