{"id":2147,"date":"2024-06-27T21:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:14","slug":"freedom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/freedom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pall.jpg 224w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pall-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cb94c408d3433965861ce7c9c76c67b9 wp-block-paragraph\">       Are we really free? What does real freedom look like? <br>If you have ever been held captive to thoughts. ..and you escape the horrid cycle of rinse and repeat&#8230;maybe you know the psychological part. Physically being held captive is different. <br><br>     Gaza and Israel have been fighting since the time of King David. Muslims and Jews are at odds over Palestine. In reality all of the land belongs to Israel. I pray daily for peace. Hamas does not want peace&#8230;.they want the elimination of Jews from the earth. <br>     How do you fight against that? I am hated for my faith, so when I am weak, I become strong. Some days I miss the mark, and could not be convicted as a Christian. That is the really sad part. I pray for forgiveness for my sins. Pride, greed, lust, envy&#8230;..these weigh a soul down. By repenting, I am given a clean slate. And for this, I give thanks.<br><br>What do you have to be thankful for?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we really free? What does real freedom look like? If you have ever been held captive to thoughts. ..and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pal.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}