{"id":68,"date":"2006-10-13T17:53:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:56:42","slug":"how-to-know-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/how-to-know-thyself\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know Thyself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Rev. John Friedlund for sharing this thought with me.<\/p>\n<p><em>One never knows a man till he has refused him something, and studied the effect of the refusal; one never knows himself till he has denied himself.  The altar of sacrifice is the touchstone of character.  The cross compels a choice for or against Christ. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>~O.P. Gifford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Rev. John Friedlund for sharing this thought with me. One never knows a man till he has refused him something, and studied the effect of the refusal; one never knows himself till he has denied himself. The altar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/how-to-know-thyself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","tag-self-denial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}