{"id":2761,"date":"2015-04-22T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2015-04-22T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:23:57","slug":"smooth-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"SMOOTH SAILING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Christian life, smooth sailing is not always a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">confirmation<\/span>.<br \/>\nIt is more often a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">caution,<\/span> a warning, a red flag.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, the caution usually goes unheeded.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth sailing carries more weight than any suggestion that there is something not good about good times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot that I could say to make the point, from The Book, but here I will just summarize with one comment that is not so smooth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the enemy of your soul has not attacked you lately, perhaps it is because he doesn\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Christian life, smooth sailing is not always a confirmation. It is more often a caution, a warning, a red flag. Problem is, the caution usually goes unheeded. Smooth sailing carries more weight than any suggestion that there is something not good about good times. &nbsp; There is a lot that I could say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761"}],"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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}