{"id":3299,"date":"2011-04-16T06:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2011-04-15T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T11:12:06","slug":"lenten-thought-for-the-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Lenten thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3067\" href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=3067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3067\" title=\"100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fasting is not confined to abstinence from eating and drinking. \u00a0Fasting really means voluntary abstinence for a time from various necessities of life, such as food, drink, sleep, rest, association with people and so forth. \u00a0The purpose of such abstinence&#8230;is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.&#8221; &#8212; Ole Hallesby (Norway\/1879-1961)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fasting is not confined to abstinence from eating and drinking. \u00a0Fasting really means voluntary abstinence for a time from various necessities of life, such as food, drink, sleep, rest, association with people and so forth. \u00a0The purpose of such abstinence&#8230;is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}