{"id":229,"date":"2006-06-11T21:41:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:55:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:55:18","slug":"touching-my-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/touching-my-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching My Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Proverbs 11:11).<\/p>\n<p>I read the first part of that verse and wondered as I have before: What good have I done for my community?<\/p>\n<p>OK. I&#8217;m a good neighbor. I&#8217;m a law-abiding citizen. I don&#8217;t litter. So I do make some positive contributions to the community.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems I should be doing more.<\/p>\n<p>How can I bless my community and make it better?<\/p>\n<p>We live in the country, by the way, and have no right-next-door neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what answers God will show me.<\/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>&#8220;By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked&#8221; (Proverbs 11:11). I read the first part of that verse and wondered as I have before: What good have I done for my community? OK. I&#8217;m a good neighbor. I&#8217;m a law-abiding citizen. I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<!-- 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}