{"id":27044,"date":"2019-03-14T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27044"},"modified":"2019-03-14T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:32:45","slug":"putting-god-to-the-test-my-latest-in-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27044","title":{"rendered":"Putting God to the Test &#8211; My latest in the Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d2qru3puhm7uxm.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/image\/article\/016\/310\/16310\/header_custom\/16310_11453_460_Welty_1040.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>The devil tested Jesus as he fasted in the wilderness for 40 days. The devil told him that if he jumped from the highest pinnacle of Jerusalem\u2019s temple the angels would catch him and bear him away to safety. That would certainly have been a lot more impressive for Israel than one more Roman crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/14\/16310_putting_god_to_the_test\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins: The devil tested Jesus as he fasted in the wilderness for 40 days. The devil told him that if he jumped from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,29,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27044"}],"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=27044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27045,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27044\/revisions\/27045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}