{"id":3593,"date":"2017-04-12T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:48:57","slug":"beaten-for-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/beaten-for-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaten for the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. &#8211; Leviticus 24:2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The olives were planted, nurtured, protected and harvested. They were then beaten, pounded, crushed and ground down in a mortar&#8230;just to transform them into pure olive oil. This oil was then\u00a0used to fuel lamps that were ordered to be kept burning continually&#8230;forever shining a light on the world around them.<\/p>\n<p>The olives had to endure hardship and painful crushing for a moment, so they could\u00a0be positioned to shine a light for eternity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s their story&#8230;and it&#8217;s yours as well.<\/p>\n<p>Selah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. &#8211; Leviticus 24:2 The olives were planted, nurtured, protected and harvested. They were then beaten, pounded, crushed and ground down in a mortar&#8230;just to transform them into pure olive oil. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/beaten-for-the-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beaten for the light&#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-3593","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\/3593","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=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}