{"id":648,"date":"2008-03-17T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/17\/wiser-in-their-generation\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:37:42","slug":"wiser-in-their-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/17\/wiser-in-their-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"wiser in their generation . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 16.8b&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Something for you to ponder: do associations matter?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They matter in the political political world, do they not? Consider an analysis from Peter Wehner regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/print\/?q=MTM4MGVjNzBhMDMxYWI3NjA3NTkzNTA0NjQ0NWJjMDM=\" target=\"_blank\">the association of Barrack Obama and his pastor Jeremiah Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But many seem to think that associations don&#8217;t matter at all in the religious political world.<\/p>\n<p>Or do they?<\/p>\n<p>Think again about my previous posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/16\/why-are-we-surprised\/\">why are we surprised?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/02\/04\/outrage-is-easy-or-is-it\/\">outrage is easy &#8230; or is it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do associations matter?<\/p>\n<p>I think they do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/don-sig9.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 16.8b&#8230; for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. Something for you to ponder: do associations matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[61,62,76,63,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}