{"id":6423,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-first-seven-years-make-all-the-difference\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:18","slug":"the-first-seven-years-make-all-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-first-seven-years-make-all-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Seven Years Make All the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People come into this world like a blank video cassette in a camcorder.  Clean &#038; fresh &#8212; ready for input.  Francis Xavier, great Catholic educator: \u201cGive me a child until he is 7 and anyone else can have him for life.\u201d  Old proverb: \u201cAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Alternate version: &#8220;Give me the child until he is seven and I\u2019ll give you the man.&#8221;  (It is also attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People come into this world like a blank video cassette in a camcorder. Clean &#038; fresh &#8212; ready for input. Francis Xavier, great Catholic educator: \u201cGive me a child until he is 7 and anyone else can have him for life.\u201d Old proverb: \u201cAs the twig is bent, so grows the tree.\u201d ________ Alternate version: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,515,1776,149],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423"}],"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=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}