{"id":2169,"date":"2013-09-04T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2013-09-03T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T04:35:13","slug":"better-a-live-dog-than-a-dead-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"BETTER A LIVE DOG THAN A DEAD LION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theoutloudblog.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/grumpy-old-dog.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few weeks back I preached a sermon on Ecc. 1 and 2 in three consecutive services. \u00a0The average age was about 65. \u00a0Departing from my notes, I closed the third service by reminding all of us of the truth in Ecc. 9:4 that it is better to be a &#8220;live dog rather than a dead lion.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can hear my sermon here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lakewaychurch.org\/sermons\/your-doctor-wants-see-you\">http:\/\/lakewaychurch.org\/sermons\/your-doctor-wants-see-you<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I preached a sermon on Ecc. 1 and 2 in three consecutive services. \u00a0The average age was about 65. \u00a0Departing from my notes, I closed the third service by reminding all of us of the truth in Ecc. 9:4 that it is better to be a &#8220;live dog rather than a [&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":[36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-sermon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}