{"id":155,"date":"2014-06-29T16:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T01:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T01:01:58","slug":"june-29-looking-downward-what-do-we-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"June 29 &#8211; Looking Downward, What Do We See?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"June 29 &#8211; Looking Downward, What Do We See?\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=155\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/white-house2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-158\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/white-house2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"white house\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/white-house2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/white-house2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/white-house2.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken by me of the White House looking out from the observation level of the Washington Monument last week. \u00a0Normally when we see pictures of the White House the photo is cropped so the White House is the most prominent item in the photo. \u00a0I have been looking at this photo noticing how many other buildings are very close to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Examining this picture has caused me to pause and ask myself the question, <strong>&#8220;What is the most important item to God in this photo?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course I can&#8217;t offer a definitive answer because I don&#8217;t presume to know the mind of God. \u00a0What did strike me is that since God loves all people the same, God loves the people in the other buildings just as much as God loves those who work or reside in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>My goal for this week is to put myself to the test of seeing and treating everyone I meet with an equal amount of love. \u00a0I know it is an ambitious challenge, but that is the challenge inspired by this photo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture was taken by me of the White House looking out from the observation level of the Washington Monument last week. \u00a0Normally when we see pictures of the White House the photo is cropped so the White House is the most prominent item in the photo. \u00a0I have been looking at this photo noticing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 29 &#8211; Looking Downward, What Do We See?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}