{"id":1855,"date":"2007-04-13T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/rod-and-staff"},"modified":"2007-04-13T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T20:44:19","slug":"rod-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/13\/rod-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Psalm 119:67 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David wrote in that familiar psalm, Psalm 23, &#8220;Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.&#8221;  The rod and the staff were shepherd&#8217;s tools. The staff was a long, crooked instrument the shepherd would use when a sheep was going astray. But the rod was simply a club, which was used when the staff wasn&#8217;t working anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word. &#8211; Psalm 119:67 David wrote in that familiar psalm, Psalm 23, &#8220;Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.&#8221; The rod and the staff were shepherd&#8217;s tools. The staff was a long, crooked instrument the shepherd would use when a sheep was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}