{"id":4442,"date":"2024-11-09T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2024-11-10T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T15:35:26","slug":"the-root-of-all-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"The Root of All Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday my neighbor and I had a discussion about this week\u2019s election(s). I won\u2019t bore you with our conversation of crooked politicians, corruption, dishonesty, stupidity, etc.\u00a0<br>Anyhow, my friend and neighbor said something like, they say money is the root of all evil and he allowed that it seems to be true \u2014 it was even written in the Bible. The quote is attributed to the Apostle Paul.\u00a0<br>But I\u2019m pretty sure he never said that. I think what he actually said was, \u201cthe <em>love<\/em> of money is the root of all evil.\u201d There\u2019s a difference. I think Paul was not focusing on the possession of money, but the feelings and\/or actions that go along with it.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my neighbor and I had a discussion about this week\u2019s election(s). I won\u2019t bore you with our conversation of crooked politicians, corruption, dishonesty, stupidity, etc.\u00a0Anyhow, my friend and neighbor said something like, they say money is the root of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=4442\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}