{"id":603,"date":"2021-01-20T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=603"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:30:01","slug":"the-tree-and-the-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"The Tree and the Reed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As John\u2019s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: \u201cWhat did<br \/>you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind? (Matthew 11:7).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBlessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of<br \/>sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His<br \/>law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields<br \/>its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither, whatever he does prospers\u201d (Psalm 1:1-<br \/>3).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Log In<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As John\u2019s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: \u201cWhat didyou go out into the desert to see? A reed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-3","category-margaret-baker","tag-15-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}