{"id":349,"date":"2006-11-13T08:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=349"},"modified":"2015-03-03T18:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T02:24:19","slug":"wanted-scarecrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/wanted-scarecrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Scarecrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we care enough about our garden to put up a scarecrow, can we care enough about people to do the same?<\/p>\n<p>Except when it comes to dealing with people, <i>I<\/i> (not some inanimate or mechanical object) need to be the scarecrow.<\/p>\n<p>I know that&#8217;s not necessarily the lesson in this part of Jesus&#8217; parable:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up&#8221;<\/em> (Matthew 13:4).<\/p>\n<p>But it does leave me wondering.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t somebody guard that seed?<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t somebody see to chasing away those birds?<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size:75%\">I posted this from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.<\/em> <span style=\"display:none\">on November 20<\/span><\/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>If we care enough about our garden to put up a scarecrow, can we care enough about people to do the same? Except when it comes to dealing with people, I (not some inanimate or mechanical object) need to be the scarecrow. I know that&#8217;s not necessarily the lesson in this part of Jesus&#8217; parable: [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-matthew","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-5D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}