{"id":4167,"date":"2019-08-27T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2019-08-27T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T16:20:03","slug":"stupid-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/stupid-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid vows"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what<span> <\/span><\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">is<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\"><span> <\/span>thine with me, and take<span> <\/span><\/span><em class=\"add\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">it<\/em><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\"><span> <\/span>to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.<\/span> &#8211; Genesis 31:32<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jephthah made one in Judges 11.<\/p>\n<p>Herod made one in Matthew 14:7.<\/p>\n<p>And other characters throughout history, and encoded in mythology, have done similar things.<\/p>\n<p>GK Cheserton calls these <del><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/a-defence-of-rash-vows\/\">stupid<\/a><\/del><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/a-defence-of-rash-vows\/\"> rash vows.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever you choose to call them&#8230;don&#8217;t make them.<\/p>\n<p>Like Jacob, there&#8217;s probably at least one detail that you&#8217;ve not considered as a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. &#8211; Genesis 31:32 Jephthah made one in Judges 11. Herod made one in Matthew 14:7. And other characters throughout history, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/stupid-vows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stupid vows&#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-4167","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\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}