{"id":6522,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/6522\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","slug":"6522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/6522\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child of about 4 or 5, my Dad was called to be the guest speaker at a church one Sunday morning.  By way of bribery my parents had told me before arriving at the church that if I were a good boy they would take me to McDonalds after the service.  During my Dad&#8217;s rather firey sermon on the destination of the good vs. the evil he asked, in a rather loud voice, &#8220;And where do you think those that live a pure, just and good life before the Lord are going to go&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>With all the fervency of the old time ameners, I stood in my seat and cried out &#8220;TO MCDONALDS&#8221;!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child of about 4 or 5, my Dad was called to be the guest speaker at a church one Sunday morning. By way of bribery my parents had told me before arriving at the church that if I were a good boy they would take me to McDonalds after the service. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1955,86,1954,1732],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522"}],"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=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}