{"id":2126,"date":"2020-03-14T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T12:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2020-03-14T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T12:10:39","slug":"nineveh-moment-9-depressions-and-tornados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Nineveh moment (9)&#8230; Depressions and tornados"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/depression.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>from the book:  &#8220;We Had Everything But Money&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Great Depression &#8220;&#8230;hit us like a tornado.&#8221;  Sort of like what happened with the deadly tornados in Nashville, Tennessee last week?  A metaphoric harbinger of things to soon come?  Maybe&#8230;  I watched a documentary about the Great Depression last night.  It explained that the &#8220;Roaring &#8217;20s&#8221; was a prosperous era where credit started to be floated to, not just the big companies, but the general public.  The general public started to play the stock market for &#8220;easy money.&#8221;  The market kept going up and up&#8230;  As, concurrently, unbridled materialism was on the rise, and sexual inhibition was on the decline (&#8220;flappers,&#8221; as just one example).  All the latter, incidentally, is antithetical to sound spirituality.  What&#8217;s more, its easy to see a corollary to what&#8217;s been going on recently with the stock market at the highest point ever, unbridled materialism, American consumers floating on an unprecedented $35 trillion sea of debt, sexual inhibition almost totally out the window&#8230; The stock market crashed in 1929 and God, it seemed, allowed a time of realignment in the country.  People lived simply, shared with each other, and went back to relying on God.  That is a formula much more aligned with making it to heaven.  The other is a formula much more aligned with, well, making it to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Depression &#8220;&#8230;hit us like a tornado.&#8221; Sort of like what happened with the deadly tornados in Nashville, Tennessee last week? A metaphoric harbinger of things to soon come? Maybe&#8230; I watched a documentary about the Great Depression last <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2126\"><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-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","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=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}