{"id":438,"date":"2008-10-06T06:19:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=438"},"modified":"2008-10-06T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T10:19:06","slug":"story-of-the-day-061008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/story-of-the-day-061008\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of The Day-06\/10\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I asked God to grant me patience.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nPatience is a by-product of trials and tribulations;<br \/>\nIt can&#8217;t be granted,<br \/>\nIt is earned !<br \/>\nI asked God to give me happiness.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nI give you joy unspeakable<br \/>\nwhich the lack of happy circumstances<br \/>\ncannot take away.<br \/>\nI asked God to spare me pain.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nSuffering draws you apart from worldly cares and<br \/>\nbrings you closer to Me.<br \/>\nI asked God to make my spirit grow.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nYou must grow on your own, but I will prune you to<br \/>\nmake you fruitful.<br \/>\nI asked for all things that I might enjoy life.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nI will give you life so that you may enjoy<br \/>\nall things.<br \/>\nI ask God to help me see beyond<br \/>\nthis temporal world.<br \/>\nGod said,<br \/>\nNow you have the idea.<\/p>\n<p>With Eternal Love,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked God to grant me patience. God said, Patience is a by-product of trials and tribulations; It can&#8217;t be granted, It is earned ! I asked God to give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[15,580,106,588,91],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-christianism","tag-christianity","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-story-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}