{"id":6396,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-priority-of-eve\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:17","slug":"the-priority-of-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-priority-of-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priority of Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God: &#8220;Lord, I have a problem!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the problem, Eve?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord, I know you&#8217;ve created me and have provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, and that hilarious comedic snake, but I&#8217;m just not happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is that, Eve?&#8221; came the reply from above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lord, I am lonely.  And I&#8217;m sick to death of apples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, Eve, in that case, I have a solution.  I shall create a man for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s a &#8216;man&#8217;, Lord?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This man will be a flawed creature, with aggressive tendencies, an enormous ego and an inability to sympathize or listen to you properly.  All in all, he&#8217;ll give you a hard time.  But, he&#8217;ll be bigger, faster and more muscular than you.  He&#8217;ll also need your advice to think properly.  He&#8217;ll be really good at fighting and kicking a ball about, and hunting fleet-footed ruminants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sounds great,&#8221; says Eve, with an ironically raised eyebrow.  &#8220;What&#8217;s the catch, Lord?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, well&#8230;. you can have him on one condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s that, Lord?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll have to let him believe that I made him first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God: &#8220;Lord, I have a problem!&#8221; &#8220;What&#8217;s the problem, Eve?&#8221; &#8220;Lord, I know you&#8217;ve created me and have provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, and that hilarious comedic snake, but I&#8217;m just not happy.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that, Eve?&#8221; came the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1511,1705,1706],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396"}],"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=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}