{"id":817,"date":"2022-09-15T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=817"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:49:15","slug":"bearing-the-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/bearing-the-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing the Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rock-paper.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-818\" width=\"220\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rock-paper.jpg 843w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rock-paper-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/rock-paper-768x831.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption>Make it So.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Sticks and stones, is a passive out. Jesus half-brother, James says: but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With that being said, Words DO hurt, and can&#8217;t be unsaid.<br><br>What does the addition of swear words add to a conversation? Exactly. The mouth is like a radio, it can play good and bad music. <br>What is considered &#8220;bad&#8221;?  It all begins with self control and the family unit. Moral principles have been in place, and everyone accepts the fact that ~~~ stomping baby kittens or swatting baby chicks with a baseball bat is clearly unacceptable. We were born with a sinful nature, that is why so many have no compass of good or bad.<br><br>We walk by faith, not by sight. Take the meat, spit out the bones.<br><br>Seize the Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sticks and stones, is a passive out. Jesus half-brother, James says: but no human being can tame the tongue. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819,"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":"","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}},"categories":[6,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/batterys.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}