{"id":838,"date":"2008-05-13T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-05-13T21:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:39:14","slug":"to-cross-the-sea-by-a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"To Cross the Sea by a Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#39;t seem to find a satisfactory translation for the Chinese Idiom: &#30610;&#22825;&#36807;&#28023;. The closest one seems to be &quot;To Cross the Sea by a Trick&quot;, or to practice deception.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this would best describe the approach of today&#39;s Evangelical Christian&#39;s, conservative or not, view towards God&#39;s guidance. Very shallow and very narrow minded.<\/p>\n<p>One must not be surprised however, for different era has its own born every day. As the old saying goes: There&#39;s one born every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#39;t seem to find a satisfactory translation for the Chinese Idiom: &#30610;&#22825;&#36807;&#28023;. The closest one seems to be &quot;To Cross the Sea by a Trick&quot;, or to practice deception. Anyhow, this would best describe the approach of today&#39;s Evangelical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=838\">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-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}