{"id":99,"date":"2010-01-15T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-01-15T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T22:24:56","slug":"a-bag-of-potato-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"A bag of potato chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Teach us to number our days, so that we may grow in wisdom.&#8221; (Ps.90:12)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many ways life is like a bag of potato chips. You eat one, then another. Without thinking. Before you know it, they&#8217;re all gone.<\/p>\n<p>But life isn&#8217;t really like a bag of potato chips. The bag is the Lord&#8217;s. It is not ours to consume mindlessly. Furthermore, He alone knows how many chips are in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>So eat slowly. Savor each one, as if it were your last. And remember to give thanks every time you reach in for another one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teach us to number our days, so that we may grow in wisdom.&#8221; (Ps.90:12) In many ways life is like a bag of potato chips. You eat one, then another. Without thinking. Before you know it, they&#8217;re all gone. But life isn&#8217;t really like a bag of potato chips. The bag is the Lord&#8217;s. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=99\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bag of potato chips&#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\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}