{"id":517,"date":"2009-08-13T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:34:23","slug":"%e2%80%9cthere-are-plenty-of-bad-things-that-need-killing%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There are plenty of bad things that need killing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I mention here items on my <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Children&#8217;s literature blog<\/a>. Certainly one role of a pastor is to encourage families in the training of their children.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/there-are-plenty-of-bad-things-that.html\">a reflection on a line from George Macdonald&#8217;s book, The Princess and Curdie<\/a>. The wise, mysterious woman character encourages Curdie, a young boy, not to destroy his weapons even though he has just done wrong with them. Instead, she urges him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Keep them, and practice with them every day, and grow a good shot. There are plenty of bad things that want [need] killing, and a day will come when they will prove useful.&#8221;\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good point and one we should be communicating. Here is what I said at the other blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the real truth, but not very often told in children&#8217;s books today. We encourage not pacifism, but restraint and wisdom. For, we know there are bad things which need destroying. I intend to raise sons who can recognize such bad things and are able and willing properly to wield destructive force when necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I mention here items on my Children&#8217;s literature blog. Certainly one role of a pastor is to encourage families in the training of their children. Yesterday, I posted a reflection on a line from George Macdonald&#8217;s book, The Princess and Curdie. The wise, mysterious woman character encourages Curdie, a young &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;There are plenty of bad things that need killing&#8221;&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":[12,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}