{"id":813,"date":"2012-05-01T21:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=813"},"modified":"2012-05-02T21:56:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T01:56:46","slug":"two-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Two quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday AM:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. <strong>This is because he works for pay<\/strong> and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I was listening to this, I thought about this song from Bob, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/us\/songs\/hurricane\">about Ruben Carter<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rubin could take a man out with just one punch<br \/>\nBut he never did like to talk about it all that much<br \/>\n<strong>It\u2019s my work, he\u2019d say, and I do it for pay<br \/>\nAnd when it\u2019s over I\u2019d just as soon go on my way<\/strong><br \/>\nUp to some paradise<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I think about teaching or about the general choices made in my own life, I&#8217;ve been lucky (or wise ?) to almost always be doing what it is I want to be doing.  I&#8217;ve rarely spent much time just gettin&#8217; paid.   How do you explain this to your kids or other people&#8217;s kids without sounding like a crazed old man?  <\/p>\n<p>John 10:11-15  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday AM: I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two quotes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-d7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}