{"id":2203,"date":"2011-08-13T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T04:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2011-08-13T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T04:35:20","slug":"seduced-he-went-after-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/seduced-he-went-after-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Seduced: He Went After Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I do six days a week, I went to a well-known payment processing site&#8230;and pondered the new graphic:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/girl-boy-street-corner.jpg\" alt=\"girl and boy kissing on a street corner a la Proverbs 7?\" title=\"She and he kissing...on a street corner...a la Proverbs 7\" style=\"width:550px; height:220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought of this right away:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For at the window of my house<br \/>\nI looked through my lattice,<br \/>\nAnd saw among the simple,<br \/>\nI perceived among the youths,<br \/>\nA young man devoid of understanding,<br \/>\nPassing along the street near her corner&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the twilight, in the evening,<br \/>\nIn the black and dark night.<br \/>\nAnd there a woman met him&#8230;<br \/>\nSo she caught him and kissed him&#8230;<br \/>\nWith her enticing speech she caused him to yield,<br \/>\nWith her flattering lips she seduced him.<br \/>\nImmediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sad, isn&#8217;t it? I don&#8217;t ask that in a judgmental way. I ask it&#8230;sadly.<\/p>\n<p>I still think of that when I go to that site. Sadly.<\/p>\n<p>May God have mercy&#8230;redemptive, redeeming, restoring mercy&#8230;on men who seduce women and on women who seduce men. And those allowing themselves to be seduced.<\/p>\n<p>And on me. I need that mercy also.<\/p>\n<p>My intent is not to impugn the character of the two individuals pictured above. I&#8217;m just telling you I thought of the other two individuals mentioned in Proverbs 7.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I modified the dimensions and corners of the graphic (and blurred out the text, of course).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I do six days a week, I went to a well-known payment processing site&#8230;and pondered the new graphic: I thought of this right away: For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding, Passing along &#8230; <a title=\"Seduced: He Went After Her\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/seduced-he-went-after-her\/\" aria-label=\"More on Seduced: He Went After Her\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[416,595,800],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-youve-been-warned","tag-morality","tag-purity","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}