{"id":34981,"date":"2016-06-04T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34981"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:50:57","slug":"the-tale-of-the-good-samaritan-updated-for-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/the-tale-of-the-good-samaritan-updated-for-modern-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The tale of the Good Samaritan, updated for modern times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bryant assures me that this isn&#8217;t original to him, but he doesn&#8217;t recall where he first encountered it. I thought it was a very appropriate re-telling of the old story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.<\/p>\n<p>And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>But then two social workers, as they journeyed, came where he was: and when they saw him, were moved by a deep compassion.<\/p>\n<p>And as they passed by on the other side one said unto the other &#8220;Whoever did that needs our help.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bryant assures me that this isn&#8217;t original to him, but he doesn&#8217;t recall where he first encountered it. I thought it was a very appropriate re-telling of the old story: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[57,11],"tags":[997],"class_list":["post-34981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-religion","tag-socialjustice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34982,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions\/34982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}