{"id":782,"date":"2009-01-23T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=782"},"modified":"2009-01-23T05:58:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T13:58:51","slug":"if-i-were-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/if-i-were-president\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were President&#8230;."},"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 29:1-9<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Or governor&#8230;. Or mayor&#8230;. Or any kind of elected leader&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (2).<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (4).<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (8).<\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m not any kind of political leader, I am in other positions of authority.<\/p>\n<p>Does my leadership bless and assure and secure and protect and direct and rejoice those &#8220;under&#8221; me?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/whosolovethwisdom-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/whosolovethwisdom-s.jpg\" alt=\"[Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father (Proverbs 29:3)]\" title=\"Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father (Proverbs 29:3)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Proverbs 29:3<\/i><\/center><\/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 29:1-9 Or governor&#8230;. Or mayor&#8230;. Or any kind of elected leader&#8230;. &#8220;When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn&#8221; (2). &#8220;The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it&#8221; (4). &#8220;Scornful men bring a city into a snare: [&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":[51,44,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-discipleship","8":"tag-live-right","9":"tag-way-of-righteousness","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"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\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}