{"id":1490,"date":"2013-02-25T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2016-07-28T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T08:00:40","slug":"the-new-and-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"The New and Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things are enjoyable because they are new. We can enjoy laughing in the rain after a long dry spell, the cool breeze on a summer evening, or an exotic food on a foreign trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130225-080103.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scquest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20130225-080103.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"20130225-080103.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But those things can get old. Snow is a novelty, until you have 6 months of it. At that point you never want to see it again!<\/p>\n<p>But some things never get old. Some things only get better the longer you go.<br \/>\n&#8220;The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.&#8221; (Lamentations 3:22-23)<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s grace and gracious actions are new each day. His gifts of mercy, forgiveness, peace, and joy do not grow old because they are ever new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things are enjoyable because they are new. We can enjoy laughing in the rain after a long dry spell, the cool breeze on a summer evening, or an exotic food on a foreign trip. But those things can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=1490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-o2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}