{"id":426,"date":"2009-01-28T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:12:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:12:46","slug":"the-emptiness-of-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"The Emptiness of Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;All the &#8216;great secrets&#8217; under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering. He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0618574948?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0618574948\">The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lpsmsfqimegrdpigmsrd\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0618574948\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, chapter 2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This description of Gollum&#8217;s condition is a compelling description of the emptiness of sin. Doesn&#8217;t this resonate, in a terrible way, in your own soul? This is a helpful picture for me to keep in my mind to fight temptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All the &#8216;great secrets&#8217; under the mountains had turned out to be just empty night: there was nothing more to find out, nothing worth doing, only nasty furtive eating and resentful remembering. He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.&#8221;\u009d (The &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Emptiness of Sin&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":[110,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}