{"id":2298,"date":"2012-02-20T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:23:59","slug":"to-know-the-devil-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"To know the Devil Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSometimes when I attempt to medidate on Glory for God, to be closer to God, it is frigthening to be reminded that I'm closer to the devil as well. Because I do not see the devil as any ordinary enemy of God. Its mystery is one that's like John Milton's Satan and yet maybe not.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo know the devil well, is to know God well. It is to discover the hidden pride in me, the hidden self-righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I attempt to medidate on Glory for God, to be closer to God, it is frigthening to be reminded that I'm closer to the devil as well. Because I do not see the devil as any ordinary enemy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2298\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","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=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}