{"id":2051,"date":"2020-01-27T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2020-01-27T17:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T17:09:20","slug":"golden-idols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"golden idols&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe.jpg 474w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kobe-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>The Epoch Times photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Kobe is dead.  The &#8216;world&#8217; mourns&#8230;<\/em><\/strong>  Last night at my Bible study, Moses comes back down the mountain and the Israelites have built a &#8220;golden calf,&#8221; a false &#8220;idol,&#8221; if you will.  Notice the &#8216;golden&#8217; trim in the uniform above.  A metaphor?  Of course it is.  Our society, through media infused pop culture, has made &#8220;idols&#8221; of some of these top players, no matter what the sport.  How much time do we spend obsessing about them, watching them, reading about them, practicing to be like them&#8230; In comparison, how much time do we spend thinking about God, praying to Him, reading about Him, practicing what He taught&#8230;?  For many of us, sadly, we&#8217;ve got this all tremendously backwards. <strong> Note: <\/strong> Was the incident sad?  Sure it was.  But so were all the other unexpected deaths yesterday across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kobe is dead. The &#8216;world&#8217; mourns&#8230; Last night at my Bible study, Moses comes back down the mountain and the Israelites have built a &#8220;golden calf,&#8221; a false &#8220;idol,&#8221; if you will. Notice the &#8216;golden&#8217; trim in the uniform above. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2051\"><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-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}