{"id":478,"date":"2007-10-25T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T20:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=478"},"modified":"2007-10-25T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T20:51:54","slug":"measure-49-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/measure-49-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure 49: A Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I started seeing signs like these:<\/p>\n

\"Yes<\/center><\/p>\n

The more I saw, the more it seemed the best thing was to approve 49.<\/p>\n

Especially since I didn’t see any anti-49 signs.<\/p>\n

Finally I noticed one in town.<\/p>\n

Then a few started popping up in the country:<\/p>\n

\"No<\/center><\/p>\n

So despite my early misimpressions, the issue does have two sides<\/b>. (No real shock there, of course.)<\/p>\n

Monday morning, as I drove by some of the aforementioned signs, I suddenly thought of two Bible verses.<\/p>\n

I see now they’re both from Proverbs 18:<\/p>\n

“He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him”<\/b><\/font> (verse 17).<\/p>\n

“He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him”<\/b><\/font> (verse 13).<\/p>\n

So there you are — an important life lesson that far exceeds the importance of Oregon’s Measure 49.<\/p>\n

Every story has two sides, so wait to express judgment till you know both sides!<\/b><\/p>\n

(And even then, be careful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I started seeing signs like these: The more I saw, the more it seemed the best thing was to approve 49. Especially since I didn’t see any anti-49 signs. Finally I noticed one in town. Then a few started popping up in the country: So despite my early misimpressions, the issue … Read more<\/a><\/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":[12,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-politics","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}