{"id":7011,"date":"2023-01-16T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:16:50","slug":"shepherds-and-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7011","title":{"rendered":"Shepherds and Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How Does a Shepherd Shepherd his Sheep? <br>He moves them in a particular direction, <br>For a particular purpose. <br>It may be to escape bad weather; <br>It may be to find better ground to graze. <br><br>He looks out for predators and defeats them, <br>Or he leads the sheep away from them. <br>He does more than give them a weekly pep-talk. <br>He is tuned-in to whatever threats may beset them. <br>He spends time with them and knows them.\u00a0 <br><br>Do the elders know their sheep? <br>Have they had them in their barns? <br>Have they guided them with a touch of the cane?<br>By hospitality they&#8217;ll get that gain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 Jan., 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Does a Shepherd Shepherd his Sheep? He moves them in a particular direction, For a particular purpose. It may be to escape bad weather; It may be to find better ground to graze. He looks out for predators and defeats them, Or he leads the sheep away from them. He does more than give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,54,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}