{"id":323,"date":"2012-05-05T06:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-05-05T06:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:54:25","slug":"famine-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"FAMINE  IN  AMERICA ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to have famine in a land of plenty?<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to suffer from malnutrition while having plenty to eat?<\/p>\n<p>Taking this to the extreme, is it possible to starve even with a full stomach?<\/p>\n<p>My dad often quoted someone who said, &#8220;It is not how much you eat that makes you strong; it is how much you properly digest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back to the first question:<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to have famine in a land of plenty?<\/p>\n<p>Did you ever get so busy, so wrapped up in something, or so worried, that you failed to eat and got sick?<\/p>\n<p>If you ignore your basic needs and basic health, it can kill you.<\/p>\n<p>And now, my point&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Behold, the days come, says the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of Bibles, but a famine of &#8220;hearing&#8221; the Word.<\/p>\n<p>FAMINE\u00a0 IN\u00a0 AMERICA ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to have famine in a land of plenty? Is it possible to suffer from malnutrition while having plenty to eat? Taking this to the extreme, is it possible to starve even with a full stomach? My dad often quoted someone who said, &#8220;It is not how much you eat that makes you [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}