{"id":716,"date":"2012-08-24T05:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2012-08-24T05:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:58:36","slug":"give-the-devil-a-little-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;GIVE THE DEVIL A LITTLE FINGER, . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Give the devil a little finger, and he&#8217;ll take the whole hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Applications abound.\u00a0 I hope it will make you think, and make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me remember my dad and all he said and stood for, as he quoted this often.<\/p>\n<p>My personal life can benefit from the searchlight of this truth.<\/p>\n<p>The culture of America fits into this statement.<\/p>\n<p>The mainstream media is already there.<\/p>\n<p>The perils of politics demonstrate this rule.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus was involved in politics, and so is the devil.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give the devil a little finger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;&#8211;His Book\u00a0 (trumps the title above)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Give the devil a little finger, and he&#8217;ll take the whole hand.&#8221; Applications abound.\u00a0 I hope it will make you think, and make a difference. It makes me remember my dad and all he said and stood for, as he quoted this often. My personal life can benefit from the searchlight of this truth. The [&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-716","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\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}