{"id":6746,"date":"2017-01-19T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2017-01-19T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:04:03","slug":"complaints-laments-and-still-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6746","title":{"rendered":"COMPLAINTS, LAMENTS, AND STILL CONTENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As I get older (58 now) I noticed rather effortlessly that two things dominated my prayers: please come soon Lord to make everything right, and a corollary of &#8220;God, do you know how hard it is to live in this world&#8221;?\u00a0 Complaints and laments, but still content in Christ.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad Scripture gives a much more expansive vocabulary than many of us American Christians have been led to believe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I get older (58 now) I noticed rather effortlessly that two things dominated my prayers: please come soon Lord to make everything right, and a corollary of &#8220;God, do you know how hard it is to live in this world&#8221;?\u00a0 Complaints and laments, but still content in Christ.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad Scripture gives a much [&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":[43,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","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=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}