{"id":2740,"date":"2016-07-25T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T08:33:00","slug":"dont-mess-with-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/25\/dont-mess-with-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t mess with Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. &#8211; Joshua 10:12<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with Texas&#8221;.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">That was the unspoken pact that marketers tapped into to persuade millions of LoneStar tough-as-old-boots Texans&#8230;to pick up litter and embrace recycling.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">All because the act of littering and improper waste disposal had been elevated to the status of &#8220;an attack on our identity&#8221; and &#8220;blatant disrespect for our Texan way of life&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">The same happened with Joshua and the Israelites.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">They&#8217;d made a bad deal with the Gibeonites and gotten involved in a battle that was never theirs to fight in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">But even still, the Covenant barked louder than their faults&#8230;causing the Lord to not only pause the entire solar system, but also to kill more of their enemies than they did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;line-height:normal;\">You don&#8217;t mess with Texas, and you don&#8217;t mess with the Covenant.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThen spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. &#8211; Joshua 10:12 &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with Texas&#8221;. That was the unspoken pact &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/25\/dont-mess-with-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with Texas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}