{"id":343,"date":"2008-06-24T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-06-24T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T01:38:00","slug":"b-maxwell-on-pastoral-discouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"B. Maxwell on pastoral discouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barryjmaxwell.blogspot.com\/\">Barry Maxwell<\/a> has written another <a href=\"http:\/\/barryjmaxwell.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/stoking-dimly-burning-wick.html\">important post on discouragement in ministry<\/a>.  I encourage you to read this full post and ponder what he says.  There is much helpful wisdom here to help us assess ourselves well, while avoiding unnecessary self-condemnation. This will repay good thoughtful reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Maxwell has written another important post on discouragement in ministry. I encourage you to read this full post and ponder what he says. There is much helpful wisdom here to help us assess ourselves well, while avoiding unnecessary self-condemnation. This will repay good thoughtful reading.<\/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":[],"tags":[136,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}