{"id":116,"date":"2007-07-20T19:57:14","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:57:42","slug":"why-christians-should-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/why-christians-should-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Christians Should Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a great article on the importance of reading on the  &#8220;Desiring God&#8221; website:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/731_on_reading\/\">http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/731_on_reading\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It includes John Calvin&#8217;s thoughts about why Christians should read  non-Christian authors as well as Christian authors.<\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes to read this excellent article, and leave a  comment to let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo Tate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a great article on the importance of reading on the &#8220;Desiring God&#8221; website: http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/731_on_reading\/ It includes John Calvin&#8217;s thoughts about why Christians should read non-Christian authors as well as Christian authors. Take a few minutes to read this excellent article, and leave a comment to let me know what you think! Happy &#8230; <a title=\"Why Christians Should Read\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/why-christians-should-read-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Christians Should Read\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}