{"id":926,"date":"2010-02-22T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:05:00","slug":"the-rocky-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"The Rocky Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/S4DAgd7ElWI\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/mt77bFpqEUU\/s1600-h\/rocky+island.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" ct=\"true\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/S4DAgd7ElWI\/AAAAAAAAAlY\/mt77bFpqEUU\/s200\/rocky+island.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0882705431?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0882705431\">Rocky Island and Other Stories<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0882705431\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px;\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>Revised and updated by Christopher Wright<br \/>(Bridge Publishing, 1982), pb., 105 pp.<br \/>Ages 5-10<\/p>\n<p>These simple 19th century allegories have some value but mostly are lesser renditions of thems in Pilgrims Progress. In this collection of seven stories there are really two stories retold in only slightly altered ways. The call to trust Christ is made clear, so there is value but so many other books do this in such a better way.&nbsp; My boys tired of the book quickly because of the repetition and the lack of subtlety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Island and Other StoriesRevised and updated by Christopher Wright(Bridge Publishing, 1982), pb., 105 pp.Ages 5-10 These simple 19th century allegories have some value but mostly are lesser renditions of thems in Pilgrims Progress. In this collection of seven stories there are really two stories retold in only slightly altered ways. The call to trust &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Rocky Island&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}