{"id":2497,"date":"2021-04-30T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:04:36","slug":"not-being-blown-around-in-the-cultural-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"not being blown around in the cultural winds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert-500x264.jpg 500w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/concert.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Brandon Lake concert, Bluffton  &#8230;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Popular Christian performer Brandon Lake performed on a Sunday night in Bluffton recently.  He was up for a Grammy in 2020 and his worship song, &#8220;This is a Move,&#8221; was the top Gospel praise song of 2019.  What was most impressive this night was not only Mr. Lake&#8217;s performance, but the amount of young people who were singing along, swaying, reaching their hands to heaven, and praying&#8230; Pretty amazing, actually, in a culture that&#8217;s trying to pull them farther and farther from God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Christian performer Brandon Lake performed on a Sunday night in Bluffton recently. He was up for a Grammy in 2020 and his worship song, &#8220;This is a Move,&#8221; was the top Gospel praise song of 2019. What was most <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2497\"><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-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}