{"id":204,"date":"2008-03-17T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-03-17T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:02:55","slug":"the-slave-who-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"The Slave Who Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was captured at 16 years of age and forced to be a slave in a foreign country.&#160; He was a herdsman for 6 years until he believed God told him to escape, which he did, back to England.&#160; A few years later, he had a vision of someone from that foreign country asking him to return to spread the Gospel of Christ, which he did.<\/p>\n<p>As you wear your green today, spare a thought for the country of Ireland, the country to which <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Patrick\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Patrick<\/a> was taken, and back to which he went to lead them to Christ.&#160; St. Patrick&#8217;s Day isn&#8217;t about shamrocks and green beer any more than Christmas is about reindeer and Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Saint Patrick,Ireland,St. Patrick&#8217;s Day[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was captured at 16 years of age and forced to be a slave in a foreign country.&#160; He was a herdsman for 6 years until he believed God told him to escape, which he did, back to England.&#160; A few years later, he had a vision of someone from that foreign country asking him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}