{"id":4871,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/too-much-snapping-not-enough-shining\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:55","slug":"too-much-snapping-not-enough-shining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/too-much-snapping-not-enough-shining\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Snapping, Not Enough Shining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Johnny Cash says religion has kept him inspired during his 36-year career.  \u201cI make my daily commitment to God.  And so long as I keep the commitment, the day goes really good,\u201d said Cash.  \u201cIf I try to break it and run everything myself, I usually mess it up.\u201d  The 59-year-old country singer was addicted to drugs in the 1960s and was jailed several times.  Cash says he overcame his addiction by renewing his faith.<\/p>\n<p>He tells how a shoeshine man taught him a lesson for living back in 1956.  \u201cI was expecting a fast, snappy job like the young folks do, and he was going real slow, and I said, \u2018You don\u2019t seem to be doing too much snapping.\u2019  He said, \u2018That\u2019s the problem with the world today &#8212; there\u2019s too much snapping and not enough shining.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Dispatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Johnny Cash says religion has kept him inspired during his 36-year career. \u201cI make my daily commitment to God. And so long as I keep the commitment, the day goes really good,\u201d said Cash. \u201cIf I try to break it and run everything myself, I usually mess it up.\u201d The 59-year-old country singer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1508,4338,2156,438],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871"}],"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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}