{"id":1282,"date":"2012-12-06T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:06:54","slug":"miracles-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"MIRACLES &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; WHY NOT ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A missionary working in Africa for many years was visiting America.\u00a0 I heard him talking on the radio about frequent miracles experienced in his work&#8212;often with children used by God in the miracles.\u00a0 The interviewer asked the missionary why so many miracles are witnessed in Africa, and so few in America.\u00a0 His answer was short and simple:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Africa we don\u2019t have a backup plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(I wonder if that missionary working in Africa was actually a missionary to America, from Africa.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A missionary working in Africa for many years was visiting America.\u00a0 I heard him talking on the radio about frequent miracles experienced in his work&#8212;often with children used by God in the miracles.\u00a0 The interviewer asked the missionary why so many miracles are witnessed in Africa, and so few in America.\u00a0 His answer was short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282"}],"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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}