{"id":4423,"date":"2023-11-06T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2023\/11\/06\/turning-a-friend-into-a-stranger\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:39:39","slug":"turning-a-friend-into-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/turning-a-friend-into-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a friend into a stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,\u00a0[<em class=\"add\">if<\/em>]\u00a0thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,<\/p>\n<cite>Proverbs 6:1<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this verse, the second &#8220;if&#8221; is italicised, meaning it&#8217;s not part of the original text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the verse actually says: <em>My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The act of &#8220;being surety&#8221; turns <em>your <\/em>friend into <em>a <\/em>stranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The person who was your intimate companion is turned into an estranged, foreign, enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All because you decided to guarantee a loan or take on a debt for your friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t do it, if you want to protect your friendship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or do it, but brace yourself for the dystopian sci-fi horror that you will unleash in your relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend is someone who loves you enough to tell you the truth&#8230;even if that truth is: our friendship is too important to trade it for a loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,\u00a0[if]\u00a0thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, Proverbs 6:1 In this verse, the second &#8220;if&#8221; is italicised, meaning it&#8217;s not part of the original text. So the verse actually says: My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast stricken thy hand with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/turning-a-friend-into-a-stranger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning a friend into a stranger&#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-4423","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\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}