{"id":1172,"date":"2010-10-18T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2010\/10\/18\/when-is-it-wise-to-drink\/"},"modified":"2010-10-18T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T04:00:20","slug":"when-is-it-wise-to-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/when-is-it-wise-to-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"When Is It Wise To Drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My background is completely different than <a href=\"http:\/\/betweenthetimes.com\/2010\/10\/14\/the-case-for-alcohol-abstinence\/\">Daniel Akin&#8217;s<\/a>.&#160; I&#8217;ve never had a person close to me abuse alcohol.&#160; Nor did I grow up in an environment where alcohol was demonized.&#160; But I&#8217;ve come to the same conclusion as Akin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I challenge anyone to show me the superior wisdom of drinking &#8220;in moderation,&#8221; as opposed to not drinking at all.&#160; This is not legalism but love.&#160; This is not being anti-biblical but pro-brother and sister.&#160; This is not working for evil but for good.&#160; Given the world in which we live I believe such a lifestyle honors the Lord Jesus.&#160; I believe it pleases Him.&#160; Without question it is the wise thing to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you &#8216;re not already convinced of this view, I commend his <a href=\"http:\/\/betweenthetimes.com\/2010\/10\/14\/the-case-for-alcohol-abstinence\/\">brief blogpost<\/a> to you.&#160; If you want to see people try to rationalize an opposing view, read the comments.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My background is completely different than Daniel Akin&#8217;s.&#160; I&#8217;ve never had a person close to me abuse alcohol.&#160; Nor did I grow up in an environment where alcohol was demonized.&#160; But I&#8217;ve come to the same conclusion as Akin. I challenge anyone to show me the superior wisdom of drinking &#8220;in moderation,&#8221; as opposed to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/when-is-it-wise-to-drink\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}