{"id":10182,"date":"2019-04-27T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10182"},"modified":"2019-04-27T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:15:09","slug":"quote-for-the-day-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10182","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Franklin Graham is under fire today. He should be. His double standards have cost the church. This mistake should not define him \u2014 he has done much good and preached the Gospel faithfully for many years \u2014 but it should grieve him. Through his <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">blatant hypocrisy<\/span>, he has earned his critics\u2019 wrath.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/franklin-graham-and-the-high-cost-of-the-lost-evangelical-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David French, National Review<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Franklin Graham degenerated into a cartoon character years ago; criticism of him <i>per se<\/i> doesn&#8217;t especially interest me.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this quote interesting is the implicit criticism of the Evangelical Right from <i>National Review<\/i>, a stalwart of conservative thought.  When even <i>they<\/i> overtly express disdain for Graham <i>et. al.<\/i>, you know the movement he represents is in its self-inflicted death throes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Graham is under fire today. He should be. His double standards have cost the church. This mistake should not define him \u2014 he has done much good and preached the Gospel faithfully for many years \u2014 but it should &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10182\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10182\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}