{"id":1098,"date":"2012-03-23T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:00:59","slug":"a-not-so-good-garden-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"A not-so-good garden experience &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>(Excerpt Beyond Pretend: A Sheep\u2019s Guide to the Universe! \u00a9 2010 by David Lee Scott. All rights reserved, p. 29.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A shared experience from the garden &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are you?\u201d God had asked, but the one asking the question was the only one with an answer. How could we expect Adam and Eve to know? Their landscape had shifted from light to darkness, the cataclysm of \u201cthe fall\u201d leaving them dazed. Waking up that morning, eagerly anticipating another day as the pinnacle of God\u2019s creation, it was good to be them. Within hours everything from the deepest inside parts of their souls to the dirt under their feet had been transformed. They tucked each other in that night, snuggled in their new clothes, fearful of life in the new world they had created. Yes, they did know more than they did before, but knowing more they now lived in darkness. Their newly acquired knowledge yielded only confusion and fear.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our world, Adam and Eve!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Excerpt Beyond Pretend: A Sheep\u2019s Guide to the Universe! \u00a9 2010 by David Lee Scott. All rights reserved, p. 29.) A shared experience from the garden &#8230; \u201cWhere are you?\u201d God had asked, but the one asking the question was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1098\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-hI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}