{"id":6496,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/defeated-by-snowflakes\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","slug":"defeated-by-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/defeated-by-snowflakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeated By Snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Napoleon proposed to invade Russia and bring its Czar under his sway.  It is said that someone ventured to say of his purpose, \u201cMan proposes, but God disposes.\u201d  On hearing the remark, Napoleon is said to have replied, \u201cI propose, and I dispose.\u201d  But that was to leave God out of the reckoning, and it proved fatal.  For God dealt with Napoleon through one of the tiniest, most fragile creations, the snowflake.  The snows of Russia defeated the presumptuous Napoleon.  \u201cRussia shall be mine,\u201d his proud heart had said whereas the Lord was there.  Because of God, the Corsican\u2019s proudly conceived invasion came to disaster and defeat.  Emperors, kings, dictators, generals, and statesmen who leave God out of their reckoning are fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoleon proposed to invade Russia and bring its Czar under his sway. It is said that someone ventured to say of his purpose, \u201cMan proposes, but God disposes.\u201d On hearing the remark, Napoleon is said to have replied, \u201cI propose, and I dispose.\u201d But that was to leave God out of the reckoning, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[966],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496"}],"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=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}