{"id":2045,"date":"2013-02-12T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2013-02-14T18:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T02:58:44","slug":"why-read-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/why-read-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Why read the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the funeral of Ron D, an 80-year-old very devoted Christian man. I didn&#8217;t talk to him much when he was alive, but I sure learned a lot from him today.<\/p>\n<p>One testimony stood out to me. A man said that when he was a young man, Ron told him to read the Bible. &#8220;Why would I want to read that crap?&#8221; He replied.<\/p>\n<p>Ron said, &#8220;If nothing else you can at least say you&#8217;ve read it. Many intelligent people have read the Bible.&#8221; What a brilliant response!<\/p>\n<p>The man took that challenge and read through the Bible in four months. He found that the Bible had much to say about life.\u00a0Somewhere along the way, he said, he became a Christian. Today he is a pastor.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m inspired to invite people to read the Bible.\u00a0&#8220;If nothing else you can at least say you&#8217;ve read it. Many intelligent people have read the Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the funeral of Ron D, an 80-year-old very devoted Christian man. I didn&#8217;t talk to him much when he was alive, but I sure learned a lot from him today. One testimony stood out to me. A man said that when he was a young man, Ron told him to read the Bible. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}