{"id":2901,"date":"2016-08-16T17:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2016-08-16T17:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:58:17","slug":"not-nice-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/16\/not-nice-but-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Not nice but necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">And it was necessary that he go through Samaria. &#8211; John 4:4<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">I know this isn&#8217;t the path you would have chosen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">It&#8217;s out of the way, it&#8217;s uncomfortable, it&#8217;s not the quickest or &#8216;best way&#8217; to get there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">It&#8217;s also circuitous, meandering, long winded, brutally inefficient and a big &#8216;waste of time&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">But I still need you to walk it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;\">It&#8217;s not nice, but it is necessary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAnd it was necessary that he go through Samaria. &#8211; John 4:4 I know this isn&#8217;t the path you would have chosen. It&#8217;s out of the way, it&#8217;s uncomfortable, it&#8217;s not the quickest or &#8216;best way&#8217; to get there. It&#8217;s also circuitous, meandering, long winded, brutally inefficient and a big &#8216;waste of time&#8217;. But I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/16\/not-nice-but-necessary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not nice but necessary&#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-2901","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\/2901","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=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}