{"id":1352,"date":"2009-07-03T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-07-03T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T15:52:31","slug":"understanding-god-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Understanding God is not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nUnderstanding God should be wanting, however, it is not enough.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne needs to fear God, hope in His mercy and trust in Him. A whole livelihood is forged upon the foundation of such intimate relationship with God. A relationship, not mere understanding, self-confident faith and blind commitment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLike a true husband and wife. Not a celebrity and its fanatic worshipper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding God should be wanting, however, it is not enough. One needs to fear God, hope in His mercy and trust in Him. A whole livelihood is forged upon the foundation of such intimate relationship with God. A relationship, not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}