{"id":34,"date":"2007-05-22T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T23:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-05-22T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T23:54:29","slug":"do-you-hear-that-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Do you hear that Echo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>39.948<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, dude, as in mpg.\u00a0 My little, red Toyota Echo.<\/p>\n<p>I really dislike paying big bucks for gas, and I like small cars.\u00a0 I&#8217;m small, just not as small as I used to be if you know what I mean.\u00a0 So last November I bought a five-year-old, 108,000 mile, Echo.<\/p>\n<p>5-speed, and quick for a four-popper.<\/p>\n<p>If you are old enough to remember the late fifties and early sixties, you know what I mean when I say &#8220;Japanese junk.&#8221;\u00a0 If you turned the item over and saw &#8220;Made in Japan&#8221; you thought junk.<\/p>\n<p>My, oh, my Billy Bob, how our world has changed.\u00a0 Now &#8220;Made in Japan&#8221; means world-class quality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But some things we can count on staying the same forever.<\/strong>\u00a0 (Sigh.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Psalms 119:89 NKJV)\u00a0 Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39.948 That&#8217;s right, dude, as in mpg.\u00a0 My little, red Toyota Echo. I really dislike paying big bucks for gas, and I like small cars.\u00a0 I&#8217;m small, just not as small as I used to be if you know what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=34\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}