{"id":207,"date":"2007-01-26T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/a-reality-check-about-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T03:57:46","slug":"a-reality-check-about-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/a-reality-check-about-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A reality check about hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought provoking post about hard times, pain &amp; suffering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ceruleansanctum.com\/2007\/01\/the-wrong-toy-in-your-happy-meal.html\">Cerulean Sanctum \u00bb The Wrong Toy in Your Happy Meal<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among all the questions why, few of us take the time to ask if our pain is someone else\u2019s gain. Even some stranger\u2019s gain. Man of SorrowsWe consider the horror dumped on our laps and automatically assume that God\u2019s forsaken us, or we\u2019ve somehow forsaken Him. Yet we rarely wonder if the torment we\u2019re enduring is meant to bless someone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought provoking post about hard times, pain &amp; suffering. Cerulean Sanctum \u00bb The Wrong Toy in Your Happy Meal Among all the questions why, few of us take the time to ask if our pain is someone else\u2019s gain. Even some stranger\u2019s gain. Man of SorrowsWe consider the horror dumped on our laps and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}