{"id":17208,"date":"2021-11-07T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17208"},"modified":"2021-11-07T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T13:46:58","slug":"odd-takes-on-todays-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2021\/11\/odd-takes-on-todays-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd Takes on Today&#8217;s Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first reading today regarding Elijah and the widow, I think this offers biblical precedent for \u201cWoman make me a sammich.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the second part of the Gospel today I recently read that according to the Talmud, there were thirteen trumpet-shaped receptacles for offerings for the temple. The horns were called a shofar which acted as a funnel into a chest. Each one of these Shofar-chests had an inscription.<br>\nSo what Jesus is saying is that those who placed money in the treasury as an act of their own aggrandizement ultimately had nothing to shofar it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first reading today regarding Elijah and the widow, I think this offers biblical precedent for \u201cWoman make me a sammich.\u201d As for the second part of the Gospel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17208\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}