{"id":7684,"date":"2024-02-02T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2024-02-02T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:02:10","slug":"self-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"Self-Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\u201cCalling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, \u201cAnyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You\u2019re not in the driver\u2019s seat; I am. Don\u2019t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I\u2019ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?\u201d MARK 8:34-37 (The Message)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCalling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, \u201cAnyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You\u2019re not in the driver\u2019s seat; I am. Don\u2019t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I\u2019ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/?p=7684\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heisourpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}