{"id":1315,"date":"2011-04-21T08:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/philemon\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:29:16","slug":"philemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/philemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Philemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters of Paul keep getting shorter, and in fact, that is probably why they were arranged in the order they are \u2013 from longest to shortest. Philemon is a friend of Paul&#8217;s, and Paul writes him because he found one of Philemon&#8217;s slaves, a man named Onesimus. The point of the letter is for Paul to convince Philemon to accept Onesimus back without punishing him, and even more, to treat him as a brother and not as a slave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letters of Paul keep getting shorter, and in fact, that is probably why they were arranged in the order they are \u2013 from longest to shortest. Philemon is a friend of Paul&#8217;s, and Paul writes him because he found one of Philemon&#8217;s slaves, a man named Onesimus. The point of the letter is for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/philemon\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-reading-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","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=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}