{"id":5099,"date":"2021-03-08T01:32:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2023-03-15T20:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:42:38","slug":"raise-your-oxen-on-the-sabbath-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/08\/raise-your-oxen-on-the-sabbath-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your Oxen on the Sabbath Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen-600x250.png\" alt=\"raise your oxen\" class=\"wp-image-5100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen-600x250.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen-768x319.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen-640x266.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/raise-your-oxen.png 1339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping with the Sunday theme of a day of rest, let&#8217;s keep this short. Jesus once said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? [<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/luke\/14-5.htm\">Luke 14:5<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To help me observe the Sabbath, I attend Mass, perhaps read a section of a religious book, and try to avoid shopping (or even to have groceries \/ packages arrive on Sunday, if I can).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes errands gotta err. And Jesus points out that the Sabbath was made for us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. [<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/mark\/2-27.htm\">Mark 2:27<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And so one way to take your day of rest is to deal with the things which are like your oxen in the well &#8211; those things in a metaphorical pit which will keep getting worse unless you make them better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping with the Sunday theme of a day of rest, let&#8217;s keep this short. Jesus once said: And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[265,12],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-jesus-and-godel","tag-this-guy-called-jesus","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6473,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}