{"id":4319,"date":"2016-07-14T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2016-07-14T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T06:42:24","slug":"god-letting-me-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/07\/14\/god-letting-me-know\/","title":{"rendered":"God letting me know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God let me know he is still present tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Facebook someone posted a link to a youtube copy of Norman Greenbaum&#8217;s Spirit in the Sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I posted a comment that, while I love the song, Norman Greenbaum did not have a good understanding of Christianity when he stated, &#8220;Never been a sinner, I&#8217;ve never sinned, I&#8217;ve got a friend in Jesus&#8221;, because we&#8217;re all sinners and that is precisely why we need Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then I decided to play the song, I have it in WinAmp (I have the original 45 but WinAmp is a lot more convenient) so I played it.\u00a0 I had WinAmp setup to play random selections indefinitely.\u00a0 The very next song it played was, &#8220;Oh Come All Ye Faithful&#8221;, and then followed that up with &#8220;Oh Holy Night&#8221;, both sung by Josh Gruben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now I have about 8,000 songs loaded and of those maybe 20 are spiritual, so the odds of it picking those two were infinitesimally small.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God let me know he is still present tonight. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Facebook someone posted a link to a youtube copy of Norman Greenbaum&#8217;s Spirit in the Sky. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I posted a comment that, while I love the song, Norman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/07\/14\/god-letting-me-know\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}