{"id":8716,"date":"2020-05-27T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:00:14","slug":"shadrach-meshach-and-abednego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8716","title":{"rendered":"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>My friend, Scott Shadrach, passed this story my way:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>Crazy Story! I called Dell technical support this afternoon to resolve an audio driver issue. The support rep identified himself as Meshach. I asked him to repeat his name.\u00a0He repeated, &#8220;Meshach.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I revealed to him my last name &#8220;Shadrach.&#8221; He immediately connected the dots about the Old Testament story of Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego from Daniel chapter 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He said, &#8220;You want to hear something funny? My cousin&#8217;s name is Shadrach Scott.&#8221;\u00a0 I said, &#8220;That&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;\u00a0 I then said, &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could find someone with the name Abednego?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He said, &#8220;You want to hear something even funnier? Shadrach Scott&#8217;s brother, my other cousin, is named Abednego Scott.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, there you have it. Just another average day in the life of a boy named Shadrach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Scott Shadrach, passed this story my way: Crazy Story! I called Dell technical support this afternoon to resolve an audio driver issue. The support rep identified himself as Meshach. I asked him to repeat his name.\u00a0He repeated, &#8220;Meshach.&#8221; I revealed to him my last name &#8220;Shadrach.&#8221; He immediately connected the dots about 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":[3,167],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-irony","tag-irony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","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=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}