{"id":1691,"date":"2018-01-20T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2018-01-20T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T17:10:07","slug":"american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"American Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At our Wednesday night Spiritual Book Study, we&#8217;re currently discussing the book <em><strong>Uncomfortable<\/strong><\/em> by Brett McCracken.\u00a0 McCracken, a Christian, notes Jesus said:\u00a0<strong> &#8220;Whoever loves his life, loses it.\u00a0 And whoever hates his life in the world, will keep it for eternal life.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 So&#8230;\u00a0 The operative question the first night was:\u00a0 &#8220;How do we feel about our lives?&#8221;\u00a0 Most people in the group acknowledged that their lives in small town Bluffton, Ohio, were, well, pretty &#8220;comfortable.&#8221;\u00a0 Three square meals and snacks; relatively nice homes (as compared, say, to most people in the inner cities and Third World); no shortage of entertainment with TVs, internet, etc.; more than adequate vehicles; friendly safe village atmosphere&#8230;\u00a0 Why, most were living the &#8220;American Dream.&#8221;\u00a0 So, what does that say about the &#8220;American Dream,&#8221; spiritually?\u00a0 Does it say that perhaps, oh, we&#8217;ve got it spiritually backwards in this country when it comes to aspiring to this iconic &#8220;American Dream&#8221; that was sold to us?\u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> To put &#8220;flesh&#8221; on all this, see my Dec. 25, 2010 blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our Wednesday night Spiritual Book Study, we&#8217;re currently discussing the book Uncomfortable by Brett McCracken.\u00a0 McCracken, a Christian, notes Jesus said:\u00a0 &#8220;Whoever loves his life, loses it.\u00a0 And whoever hates his life in the world, will keep it for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1691\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}