{"id":2067,"date":"2013-08-26T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2013-08-25T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:26:06","slug":"is-the-pen-mightier-than-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"IS THE PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/procrastinatingpeople.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is a well-known and regularly retrieved saying, but do we really believe &#8220;the pen is mightier than the sword?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It seems the sword is being employed a lot these days. \u00a0It also seems right to conclude that the sword being used so often is proof that it works. \u00a0Why else use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christians extol the power of the Word. \u00a0God&#8217;s Word is &#8220;&#8230;living and active, <em>sharper<\/em> than any two-edged sword&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0(Heb. 4:12)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When I observe governments grabbing the sword as the first or only option, I know their ideas must not be very compelling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poet, playwright, writer\/Czech Republic president (in that order!) said, &#8220;I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well-known and regularly retrieved saying, but do we really believe &#8220;the pen is mightier than the sword?&#8221; It seems the sword is being employed a lot these days. \u00a0It also seems right to conclude that the sword being used so often is proof that it works. \u00a0Why else use it? Christians extol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}