{"id":18668,"date":"2016-12-12T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18668"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T21:40:02","slug":"ezekiel-28-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18668","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel 28: 4-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest Bible reading: I skipped some of the more violent parts of Ezekiel on the off chance that somebody might mistake this as a call to shoot up a pizza joint. Ezekiel reports that God isn&#8217;t very impressed with folks who use their smarts solely to make a bundle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4 By your wisdom and understanding<br \/>\n    you have gained wealth for yourself<br \/>\nand amassed gold and silver<br \/>\n    in your treasuries.<br \/>\n5 By your great skill in trading<br \/>\n    you have increased your wealth,<br \/>\nand because of your wealth<br \/>\n    your heart has grown proud.<br \/>\n6 \u201c\u2018Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Because you think you are wise,<br \/>\n    as wise as a god,<br \/>\n7 I am going to bring foreigners against you,<br \/>\n    the most ruthless of nations;<br \/>\nthey will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom<br \/>\n    and pierce your shining splendor.<br \/>\n8 They will bring you down to the pit,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest Bible reading: I skipped some of the more violent parts of Ezekiel on the off chance that somebody might mistake this as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18676,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18668\/revisions\/18676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}