{"id":428,"date":"2011-05-19T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=428"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:17:06","slug":"joshua-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Sin is stupid (Judges 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, the Lord raised up a rescuer to save them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over and over again, the Lord demonstrated his faithfulness to his covenant (yet wayward) people. He would raise up a warrior-judge to deliver Israel from her enemies and to bring peace to the nation. But a generation would pass &#8212;sometimes less&#8212; and then the people would turn from the Lord and his ways and the cycle would repeat itself. <\/p>\n<p>Sin is destructive  Sin is stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, the Lord raised up a rescuer to save them.&#8221; Over and over again, the Lord demonstrated his faithfulness to his covenant (yet wayward) people. He would raise up a warrior-judge to deliver Israel from her enemies and to bring peace to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sin is stupid (Judges 3)&#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\/428"}],"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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}