{"id":355,"date":"2025-06-02T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:40:31","slug":"a-pox-on-both-your-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"A Pox on Both Your Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Republicans are hate mongering. The Democrats are fear mongering. The despots weigh down and the revolutionaries burn up. <br><br>But if you think this is nothing but a cynical screed, I would say, this world is the perfect school for the righteous. It is the fire which purifies Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego into pure gold. In this world the good are good even with no apparent up-side. Hopefully God will be merciful if we learn this lesson by trial and error.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans are hate mongering. The Democrats are fear mongering. The despots weigh down and the revolutionaries burn up. But if you think this is nothing but a cynical screed, I would say, this world is the perfect school for the righteous. It is the fire which purifies Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego into pure gold. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}