{"id":8018,"date":"2026-06-20T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8018"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:56:36","slug":"bartering-its-a-deal-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8018","title":{"rendered":"BARTERING &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; IT&#8217;S A DEAL &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR NOT ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bartering for food   !<br>Bartering with no cash   !<br>Bartering with no laws   ?<br>Bartering with no rules   ?<br>Bartering for survival   !   X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering in the good old days   ! <br>Bartering&#8212;pioneer doctors accepted whatever people had for &#8216;payment&#8217;   !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering for what&#8217;s really important   X<br>Bartering for faults   X<br>Bartering for forgiveness   X  X<br>Bartering with God   X  X  X<br>Bartering with God&#8212;on His terms   !  !  !  !<br>Bartering for sin   X  X  X<br>Bartering with the devil   X  X  X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering with debt   ?<br>Bartering &#8220;owe my soul to the company store&#8221;   X<br>Bartering &#8220;own you ?&#8221;   X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering&#8212;all is negotiable   ?  ?  ?<br>Bartering&#8212;everything has its price   ?  ?  ?<br>Bartering&#8212;everyone has his price   X  X  X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering for inheritance   !   ?   X    !  !   ?  ?   X  X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering with self to make decisions   ?<br>Bartering with self to justify   X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering on the internet   ?   !   ?   X<br>Bartering with AI   X  X  X  X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bartering with extremist terrorist, shiite muslim religious leaders ruling Iran   X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bartering for food !Bartering with no cash !Bartering with no laws ?Bartering with no rules ?Bartering for survival ! X Bartering in the good old days ! Bartering&#8212;pioneer doctors accepted whatever people had for &#8216;payment&#8217; ! Bartering for what&#8217;s really important XBartering for faults XBartering for forgiveness X XBartering with God X X XBartering with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018"}],"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=8018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8018\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}