{"id":6404,"date":"2015-06-16T16:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2015-06-16T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:53:40","slug":"elliot-on-the-purpose-of-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6404","title":{"rendered":"Elliot on the Purpose of Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p23043002_01-1\" class=\"line\"><span class=\"selected\">&#8220;When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"\">and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"\">when you walk through fire <\/span><span class=\"\">you shall not be burned,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"\">and the flame shall not consume you&#8221; (Isaiah 43:2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/myzG8HCjkPo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Suffering is never for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Author and teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2015\/06\/elisabeth_elliot_enters_gates_of_splendor\">Elisabeth Elliot<\/a>, 88, died yesterday in her sleep. Her legacy will never die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you&#8221; (Isaiah 43:2). Suffering is never for nothing. Author and teacher Elisabeth Elliot, 88, died yesterday in her sleep. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elliot on the Purpose of Suffering<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[862],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-religion","tag-elisabeth-elliot"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}