{"id":4864,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/you-cut-and-ill-choose\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","slug":"you-cut-and-ill-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/you-cut-and-ill-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cut, and I&#8217;ll Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two small boys in front of me were walking slowly, deep in conversation, when they stopped to share an apple.  &#8220;You cut and I&#8217;ll choose,&#8221; said one to the other.  A penknife appeared, the cut was made and the choice decided.<\/p>\n<p>What a splendid way of ensuring an apple is equally shared! Perhaps the world could get along with fewer conferences and agreements, I reflected, if only the powers that be had the simple solution that schoolboys worked out centuries ago. &#8211;Sunday Post, Glasgow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two small boys in front of me were walking slowly, deep in conversation, when they stopped to share an apple. &#8220;You cut and I&#8217;ll choose,&#8221; said one to the other. A penknife appeared, the cut was made and the choice decided. What a splendid way of ensuring an apple is equally shared! Perhaps the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}