{"id":497,"date":"2007-11-21T06:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=497"},"modified":"2007-11-21T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T15:02:44","slug":"treasure-trash-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/treasure-trash-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure &#8212; Trash &#8212; Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071121\/ts_afp\/entertainmentusartlatammexico_071121060020\">There&#8217;s a lesson in this, right?<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>A painting found in a pile of trash on a New York street sold at Sotheby&#8217;s auction house late Tuesday for a million dollars, nearly 20 years after it was stolen from a warehouse in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tres personajes&#8221; (&#8220;Three People&#8221;), a 1970 work by Rufino Tamayo, one of Mexico&#8217;s best known artists, was bagged for 1.049,000 dollars by a north American buyer who fought off a telephone bidder, the auction house said.<\/p>\n<p>It had been saved from the garbage by Elizabeth Gibson, who spotted the work while out walking one morning in 2003.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Maybe even more than one.<\/p>\n<p>The painting, even while in the trash, was valuable.<\/p>\n<p>Value isn&#8217;t always recognized by people.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody had to put forth effort to rescue the treasure from the trash.<\/p>\n<p>Does this apply to me somehow?<\/p>\n<p>Jesus rescued me from life&#8217;s trash heap.<\/p>\n<p>My value to Jesus wasn&#8217;t diminished by the fact I was in the trash heap.<\/p>\n<p>I need to learn to value people better (and more accurately).<\/p>\n<p>I need to work with Jesus in the <i>We Rescue Treasure from Trash<\/i> business.<\/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>There&#8217;s a lesson in this, right? A painting found in a pile of trash on a New York street sold at Sotheby&#8217;s auction house late Tuesday for a million dollars, nearly 20 years after it was stolen from a warehouse in Texas. &#8220;Tres personajes&#8221; (&#8220;Three People&#8221;), a 1970 work by Rufino Tamayo, one of Mexico&#8217;s &#8230; <a title=\"Treasure &#8212; Trash &#8212; Treasure\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/treasure-trash-treasure\/\" aria-label=\"More on Treasure &#8212; Trash &#8212; Treasure\">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":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}