{"id":7769,"date":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/what-doest-thou-here-elijah\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:47:59","slug":"what-doest-thou-here-elijah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/what-doest-thou-here-elijah\/","title":{"rendered":"What Doest Thou Here, Elijah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The precocious six-year-old burst into the British pub, surveyed the patrons, and spotted an elderly man with his paper and mug of beer.  \u201cWhat doest thou here, Elijah,\u201d the youngster boldly stated, \u201csitting with the ungodly, and you a member of the church, and breaking your pastor\u2019s heart?  I am ashamed of you.\u201d  His corrective delivered, young Charles Spurgeon left the pub &#8212; and left the wayward member of his grandfather\u2019s church spurred to a renewed Christian life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precocious six-year-old burst into the British pub, surveyed the patrons, and spotted an elderly man with his paper and mug of beer. \u201cWhat doest thou here, Elijah,\u201d the youngster boldly stated, \u201csitting with the ungodly, and you a member of the church, and breaking your pastor\u2019s heart? I am ashamed of you.\u201d His corrective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[435,434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769"}],"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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}