{"id":882,"date":"2008-09-02T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/02\/the-other-side-scares-me\/"},"modified":"2008-09-02T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T06:01:24","slug":"the-other-side-scares-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/02\/the-other-side-scares-me\/","title":{"rendered":"the other side scares me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I offered earlier a somewhat underwhelmed view of the Republican ticket. But what of the other side?<\/p>\n<p>The other side scares me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When I read the Bible, I do so with the belief that it is not a static (stable) text but the Living Word and that I must be continually open to <i>new revelations<\/i>.(Barack Obama, <i>Audacity of Hope, <\/i>p. 224)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more, read about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/index.php?p=1199&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\">Lighthouse Trails<\/a>.<\/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_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/don-sig22.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I offered earlier a somewhat underwhelmed view of the Republican ticket. But what of the other side? The other side scares me: When I read the Bible, I do so with the belief that it is not a static (stable) text but the Living Word and that I must be continually open to new revelations.(Barack [&hellip;]<\/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":[72,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-ee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}