{"id":165,"date":"2006-10-27T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:17:57","slug":"spurgeon-on-the-need-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Spurgeon on the Need to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albatrus.org\/english\/potpourri\/images\/Charles%20Haddon%20Spurgeon.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albatrus.org\/english\/potpourri\/images\/Charles%20Haddon%20Spurgeon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Check out the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theologica.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/bring-books.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Spurgeon quote posted by Justin Taylor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">.This is another great statement on the value and importance of reading.Here&#8217;s a piece of the quote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman;\">How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! He had seen the Lord, and yet he wants books! He had had a wider experience than most men, and yet he wants books! He had been caught up into the third heaven, and had heard things which it was unlawful for men to utter, yet he wants books! He had written the major part of the New Testament, and yet he wants books!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the Spurgeon quote posted by Justin Taylor.This is another great statement on the value and importance of reading.Here&#8217;s a piece of the quote: \u00a0 How rebuked are they by the apostle! He is inspired, and yet he wants books! He has been preaching at least for thirty years, and yet he wants books! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Spurgeon on the Need to Read&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}