{"id":5132,"date":"2015-01-06T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2015-01-05T17:31:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T23:31:31","slug":"sexy-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"SEXY NEW YORK CITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"revData-dpReviewsMostHelpfulAUI-R2Z2YL2LQ4NVRS\">\n<div><strong>New York City is indeed a sexy place.\u00a0 Since my wife is from the northern part of New Jersey, I have made many trips into the Big Apple.\u00a0 It never disappoints, but that is the problem&#8230;at least for Christians.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Bowman has written a wonderful book on the temptations and trials of Christians who tried to keep pace with the city who could offer an alternative religion of sorts.\u00a0 And the religion New York City had to offer one hundred years ago (and still does) can seem more compelling than the one that offers a set of beliefs and a Person who has not been seen for 2000 years.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Read about the struggle to make sense of the Christian faith amidst the city that never sleeps.\u00a0 There is much for us Christians to consider in this well-written book.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0CAcQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThe-Urban-Pulpit-Liberal-Evangelicalism%2Fdp%2F0199977607&amp;ei=jR2rVPCDM5GpogSi24GQAQ&amp;bvm=bv.82001339,d.aWw&amp;psig=AFQjCNH5M1aC44XMsLUGBYgf3L4n-xzDPA&amp;ust=1420586763178167\" data-ved=\"0CAcQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 135px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/518O3MJkA6L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is indeed a sexy place.\u00a0 Since my wife is from the northern part of New Jersey, I have made many trips into the Big Apple.\u00a0 It never disappoints, but that is the problem&#8230;at least for Christians. Bowman has written a wonderful book on the temptations and trials of Christians who tried to [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132","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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5135,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}