{"id":33,"date":"2008-06-30T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-06-30T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T12:16:30","slug":"the-choice-is-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"The Choice is Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can be strong, I can be brave,<br \/>\nI can be free, or be a slave.<br \/>\nI can forgive as He forgave<br \/>\nThe choice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>I can go through in storm or gale,<br \/>\nI can be true, or I can fail;<br \/>\nI can desert or set my sail.<br \/>\nThe choice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>If I would live then I must die<br \/>\nAnd bid this fleeting world goodbye<br \/>\nIt?s treasures dear, I must deny<br \/>\nThe choice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>I?ll walk by faith where I am led,<br \/>\nIt matters not what lies ahead,<br \/>\nAnd if the path be crimson red,<br \/>\nThe choice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>If I the King of heaven choose,<br \/>\nIf I the things of earth refuse,<br \/>\nThe best I gain, the worst I lose &#8212;<br \/>\nThe choice is mine.<\/p>\n<p>Ira F. Stanphill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can be strong, I can be brave, I can be free, or be a slave. I can forgive as He forgave The choice is mine. I can go through in storm or gale, I can be true, or I can fail; I can desert or set my sail. The choice is mine. If I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Choice is Mine&#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\/33"}],"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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}