{"id":10527,"date":"2022-02-08T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2022-03-21T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:53:22","slug":"somethings-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=10527","title":{"rendered":"Something&#8217;s Fishy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/jonah.jpg\" alt=\"Jonah\" class=\"wp-image-9702\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonah, Commentary by Hugh Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started reading Hugh Martin&#8217;s commentary on Jonah.  When I reached for a bookmark out of my various stash, which I keep in a mug which features an elephant trunk as a handle (see below), I happened to pull out this one with a number of fish on it.  What are the chances?  Given that they were fresh water fish, I highly doubted that the one that swallowed Jonah in the salt water Mediterranean Sea was a trout or a bass.  Although, if God had prepared a fish large enough to swallow a man and keep him alive for three days in its belly, I supposed that God could have made that fish of whatever species He wished.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3980\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/elephant.jpg\" alt=\"elephant\" class=\"wp-image-9702\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I know this blog post is about fish, but ya gotta see this elephant mug!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started reading Hugh Martin&#8217;s commentary on Jonah. When I reached for a bookmark out of my various stash, which I keep in a mug which features an elephant trunk as a handle (see below), I happened to pull out this one with a number of fish on it. What are the chances? Given that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=10527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Something&#8217;s Fishy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,41],"tags":[28,282,284,283,281,280],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-religion","tag-books","tag-commentary","tag-elephant","tag-fish","tag-hugh-martin","tag-jonah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10530,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions\/10530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}