{"id":756,"date":"2008-12-24T07:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=756"},"modified":"2008-12-24T07:14:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:14:25","slug":"the-self-imagined-wise-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/the-self-imagined-wise-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self-Imagined Wise Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 26:1-14<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Wow! This chapter has a dreary beginning, with eleven of the first twelve verses devoted to comments about the fool. As you might guess, none of the comments are positive. None are even merely neutral. To be a fool is bad, bad, bad.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of that batch of verses, we find this one (which, come to think of it, does have a positive ring of hope for the fool, though not for <i>being<\/i> a fool):<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (12).<\/p>\n<p>Whoa!<\/p>\n<p>That being the case, deliver me from pride and all the self-exalting traits that accompany it!<\/p>\n<p>(And also deliver me from being a fool.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/godrewardeth-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/godrewardeth-s.jpg\" alt=\"[The great God...rewardeth (Proverbs 26:10)]\" title=\"The great God...rewardeth (Proverbs 26:10)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 26:10<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 26:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8820\"><font color=green>God Is Great<\/font><\/a><\/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>Reading: Proverbs 26:1-14 Wow! This chapter has a dreary beginning, with eleven of the first twelve verses devoted to comments about the fool. As you might guess, none of the comments are positive. None are even merely neutral. To be a fool is bad, bad, bad. At the end of that batch of verses, we [&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":[30],"class_list":{"0":"post-756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-seek-wisdom","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}