{"id":757,"date":"2013-11-01T04:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T04:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T06:34:54","slug":"on-pride-social-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"On Pride:  A Social Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><em>&#8220;It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.&#8221; (St. Augustine) \u00a0<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3 xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><\/h3>\n<h3 xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A HEALTHY DOSE<\/h3>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">As we recognize and celebrate our\u00a0gifts and\u00a0accomplishments, we must remain\u00a0humble in order for God to use us.\u00a0There is a vast difference between\u00a0a\u00a0healthy\u00a0dose of\u00a0self-confidence and\u00a0any portion of\u00a0diseased pride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">We must never fail to honor our Creator\u00a0for everything.\u00a0No one is self-made; we do nothing on our own. When we feel the urge to boast, let us\u00a0choose humility over arrogance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0Whatever we feed will grow, so let us feed the spirit with praise and worship, and starve\u00a0false perceptions of ourselves.\u00a0If\u00a0we\u00a0keep our ears tuned to the still,\u00a0small voice within\u00a0and listen for the tugs on our hearts,\u00a0we will\u00a0humble the ego and become\u00a0as angels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we feel the urge to boast, let us choose humility over arrogance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeakistir.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}