{"id":7764,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/he-was-the-closest\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:58","slug":"he-was-the-closest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/he-was-the-closest\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was the Closest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story is told in which an accountant answered an advertisement for a top job with a large firm.  At the end of the interview, the chairman asked, \u201cOne last question-what is three times seven?\u201d  The accountant thought for a moment and replied, \u201cTwenty-two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside he checked himself on his calculator and concluded he had lost the job.  But two weeks later he was offered the post.  He asked the chairman why he had been appointed when he had given the wrong answer.  \u201cYou were the closest,\u201d the chairman replied.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have the mistaken idea that God is like the man who conducted the interview.  They think it doesn\u2019t matter what you believe as long as you\u2019re close to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #4431]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story is told in which an accountant answered an advertisement for a top job with a large firm. At the end of the interview, the chairman asked, \u201cOne last question-what is three times seven?\u201d The accountant thought for a moment and replied, \u201cTwenty-two.\u201d Outside he checked himself on his calculator and concluded he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[429,428,431,432,427,113,430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764"}],"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=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}