{"id":7070,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/marriage\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A braid appears to contain only two strands of hair.  But it is impossible to create a braid with only two strands. [  *  ]   If the two could be put together at all, they would quickly unravel.<\/p>\n<p>Herein lies the mystery:  What looks like two strands requires a third.  The third strand, though not immediately evident, keeps the strands tightly woven.<\/p>\n<p>In a Christian marriage, God&#8217;s presence, like the third strand in a braid, holds husband and wife together.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p> [  *  ]    Actually, you can make a braid with only two strands but they have to be kept under tension or they unravel. (Holwick)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A braid appears to contain only two strands of hair. But it is impossible to create a braid with only two strands. [ * ] If the two could be put together at all, they would quickly unravel. Herein lies the mystery: What looks like two strands requires a third. The third strand, though not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4939,4940,4018,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070"}],"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=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}