{"id":713,"date":"2011-07-17T08:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-07-18T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:26:48","slug":"a-very-complicated-man-1-samuel-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"A very complicated man (1 Samuel 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;David did not leave one person alive in the villages he attacked. He took the sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing before returning home to see King Achish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David lived for sixteen months in the land of the Philistines, and found favor with King Achish because of his military exploits. And yet he lied to the king about which villages he attacked, apparently so the king would not suspect any divided loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>David was as shrewd as he was fierce, yet his heart was tender toward the LORD God of Israel. A very complicated man indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;David did not leave one person alive in the villages he attacked. He took the sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing before returning home to see King Achish.&#8221; David lived for sixteen months in the land of the Philistines, and found favor with King Achish because of his military exploits. And yet he lied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A very complicated man (1 Samuel 27)&#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\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}