{"id":17,"date":"2004-10-22T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T15:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/how-not-to-go-to-helena-montana\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T15:17:20","slug":"how-not-to-go-to-helena-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/how-not-to-go-to-helena-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to go to Helena, Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t drive north by always driving south. It doesn&#8217;t matter how quickly or carefully you drive. You can&#8217;t drive both east and west. You can&#8217;t drive north by always driving west. The residents of Helena, Montana, would love to have you visit, but you won&#8217;t get there if you never take the road to Helena. If you sincerely want to visit Helena but drive 100 miles to the east of it, you won&#8217;t arrive where you want to go, and it&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s fault but your own. In the same way, God doesn&#8217;t want to lose you, but if you go everywhere but to him, you shouldn&#8217;t blame him for what eventually happens to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t drive north by always driving south. It doesn&#8217;t matter how quickly or carefully you drive. You can&#8217;t drive both east and west. You can&#8217;t drive north by always driving west. The residents of Helena, Montana, would love to have you visit, but you won&#8217;t get there if you never take the road to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}