{"id":1405,"date":"2009-11-11T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:57","slug":"jacobs-struggle-with-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Jacob&#8217;s Struggle With Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse for the next several days from Genesis\u00a0chapters 32,34,38, and the subject of <em>Jacob&#8217;s struggle with preservation<\/em>.\u00a0 The greatest area of struggle for him as well as us is <em>self-preservation. <\/em>We concern ourselves\u00a0with taking care of number one. There is little among us of <em>reckless abandonment\u00a0of self<\/em>. There are few who proclaim <em>I count not my life dear unto me<\/em>. In Jacob&#8217;s life one of his greatest struggle was with his self. Let us be reminded the one we see first thing in the mirror\u00a0of a morning is our worst enemy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse for the next several days from Genesis\u00a0chapters 32,34,38, and the subject of Jacob&#8217;s struggle with preservation.\u00a0 The greatest area of struggle for him as well as us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6325,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}