{"id":387,"date":"2006-11-02T22:35:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=387"},"modified":"2006-11-02T22:35:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:35:54","slug":"is-america-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Is America Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder if America is better than the Israelites of the old testament. To come to think of it, the Israelites were better. Time and time again, they&#39;ve come to God. What America is suffering from seems to be the longest disease I&#39;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>By comparisons, the Israelites were crazy about idolatry. America? We have all kinds of religions striving to stand up while christians shut themselves inside churches. Very contrary to Jesus&#39; last but greatest commission to His followers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I wonder if America is better than the Israelites of the old testament. To come to think of it, the Israelites were better. Time and time again, they&#39;ve come to God. What America is suffering from seems to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=387\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}