{"id":106,"date":"2012-03-18T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-03-18T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:06:41","slug":"clogged-culverts-or-clean-conduits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"CLOGGED CULVERTS&#8212;OR&#8212;CLEAN CONDUITS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fully functioning culvert lets all the water coming in, pass through quickly&#8212;or it will choke up with silt and debris.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, if we are clean conduits, we let the blessings coming into our life, flow on through immediately to bless others&#8212;or else our hearts will increasingly focus on what we keep, and our lives will get clogged with things we don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A culvert that is choked up is worthless.<\/p>\n<p>A clogged life is a sad sight, without consideration for those we were called to bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fully functioning culvert lets all the water coming in, pass through quickly&#8212;or it will choke up with silt and debris. Likewise, if we are clean conduits, we let the blessings coming into our life, flow on through immediately to bless others&#8212;or else our hearts will increasingly focus on what we keep, and our lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}