{"id":817,"date":"2011-08-16T07:13:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=817"},"modified":"2011-08-16T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:33:14","slug":"2-samuel-20-violent-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"(2 Samuel 20) Violent culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you hand over this one man to me, I will leave the town in peace.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right,\u201d the woman replied, \u201cwe will throw his head over the wall to you.\u201d Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off Sheba\u2019s head and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the ram\u2019s horn and called his troops back from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>If the LORD did not turn his back on such a violent culture, but worked in the lives of those ancient men and women, surely the same is true today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you hand over this one man to me, I will leave the town in peace.\u201d \u201cAll right,\u201d the woman replied, \u201cwe will throw his head over the wall to you.\u201d Then the woman went to all the people with her wise advice, and they cut off Sheba\u2019s head and threw it out to Joab. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(2 Samuel 20) Violent culture&#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":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}