{"id":2034,"date":"2011-06-11T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T20:27:31","slug":"short-fable:-let-no-man-despise-thy-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Short Fable: Let No Man Despise Thy Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe elders of a church instructed a reluctant young man to teach a group of young children. Reluctant because he believes himself to be less qualified than other married and older members of the church.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne day, after noticing an even younger and gifted preacher on the news, one of the elders said to the young humble fellow: &quot;You see, you have much catching up to do...he is even younger than you!&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe young adult smiled and replied tenderly: &quot;I agree. But what's more troubling to me, is that I see those who are much older and sitting on higher position than I and they're not even half of my worth.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-- Let no man despise thy youth...(1 Timothy 4:12a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elders of a church instructed a reluctant young man to teach a group of young children. Reluctant because he believes himself to be less qualified than other married and older members of the church. One day, after noticing an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2034\">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":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authoring","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}