{"id":3009,"date":"2014-01-23T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2014-01-23T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T07:44:15","slug":"writing-for-posterity-something-everyone-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3009","title":{"rendered":"WRITING FOR POSTERITY&#8230;EVERYONE CAN SO THEY SHOULD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jaxpastor.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/grant-horners-bible.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><strong>The image is from Grant Horner&#8217;s Bible and it leads to a pleasant challenge for all of us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><strong>How about writing in your Bible (and other places like journals) to leave a wonderful gift to your children, their children, and who knows whoever else! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><strong>Personally, I mark up four Bibles: two in English and two in Greek. \u00a0We have two sons so each will have somewhat of an idea of the things which struck me most. \u00a0I try to keep my penmanship fairly neat, but even when it is unclear what better gift could you give someone from your family?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><strong>My wife, Doreen, has a heavily marked up Bible, but because of smudges from the wrong kinds of writing instruments, some of the notes will only be known in eternity!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><strong>I was glad to see this post last year:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem; margin-left: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/dads-write-in-your-bible\">http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/dads-write-in-your-bible<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image is from Grant Horner&#8217;s Bible and it leads to a pleasant challenge for all of us. How about writing in your Bible (and other places like journals) to leave a wonderful gift to your children, their children, and who knows whoever else! \u00a0 Personally, I mark up four Bibles: two in English and [&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":[3,24,49,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-reading","category-death","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","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=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}