{"id":135,"date":"2015-07-15T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-07-23T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T20:43:24","slug":"quote-of-the-day-july-15-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day &#8211; July 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Gibson_Paton\" target=\"_blank\">John Gibson Paton<\/a> was a missionary to the New Hebrides (modern day Vanuatu). \u00a0He received much criticism before departing his native Scotland to spread the Gospel in places considered so dangerous. \u00a0On one occasion, a Mr. Dickson exploded, &#8220;The cannibals! You will be eaten by cannibals!&#8221; To this Paton responded:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms; and in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gibson Paton was a missionary to the New Hebrides (modern day Vanuatu). \u00a0He received much criticism before departing his native Scotland to spread the Gospel in places considered so<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/?p=135\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csbcva.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}