{"id":4590,"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2014-09-02T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T04:07:06","slug":"remember-the-vertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"REMEMBER THE VERTICAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=mN4ot-QjPd1olM&amp;tbnid=Gwsbby5x7THCJM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fplus.google.com%2F115781628614796633038&amp;ei=VDIFVOLMBsXC8QG7s4HYCw&amp;bvm=bv.74115972,d.eXY&amp;psig=AFQjCNGPAdG-28JtzkQcERxIevVROIeXAg&amp;ust=1409713063775913\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 24px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Sa3XlZrg9HI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAFHs\/Twmd_Wtjkzk\/photo.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>I was speaking with my dad the other night.\u00a0 I typically call him on Sundays, but this past Sunday was special.\u00a0 Dad was celebrating his eighty-ninth birthday.\u00a0 He continues to lead a full life with ministry to the poor and enjoys many, wonderful friendships.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>We got talking about a prayer he recently wrote on the evil of terrorism.\u00a0 Dad mentioned that the word evil is being used more by journalists.\u00a0 Good thing, but evil is typically used to describe the wrong we have done to another human being.\u00a0 Sin, on the other hand, reminds us of what we have done against God.\u00a0 It reminds us that our vertical relationship is primary.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>We can really celebrate when newscasters begin to use the &#8220;S&#8221; word!<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was speaking with my dad the other night.\u00a0 I typically call him on Sundays, but this past Sunday was special.\u00a0 Dad was celebrating his eighty-ninth birthday.\u00a0 He continues to lead a full life with ministry to the poor and enjoys many, wonderful friendships. We got talking about a prayer he recently wrote on the [&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":[88,10,107,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-sin","category-televisionmedia","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}