{"id":510,"date":"2011-06-12T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=510"},"modified":"2011-06-15T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:12:14","slug":"1-samuel-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Good wrestlers (1 Samuel 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And she made this vow: \u201cO Lord of Heaven\u2019s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the Lord, his hair will never be cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can a man (or a woman) really deal this way with the Almighty? The proper theological answer I suppose is no, of course not.  But Hannah was not a proper theologian. Nor was her ancestor Jacob when he wrestled all night with the angel. <\/p>\n<p>Studied theologians don&#8217;t necessarily make good wrestlers. Perhaps you can&#8217;t <em>really <\/em>be one without the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And she made this vow: \u201cO Lord of Heaven\u2019s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the Lord, his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good wrestlers (1 Samuel 1)&#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\/510"}],"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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}