{"id":409,"date":"2013-03-22T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2013-03-22T10:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:17:51","slug":"breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/archives\/409","title":{"rendered":"BREAKFAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-410\" alt=\"2photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2photo-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2photo-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2photo-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BREAKFAST<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t like to eat too early in the morning. Today it was ten before I cut up my usual oranges topped with plain yogurt and salted sunflower seeds, added a cappuccino made from freshly ground decaf beans, and for good measure juiced a couple of grapefruit. I\u2019m enjoying this repast as I write\u2014and as I think about the significance of breaking my fast.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m never hungry in the morning, though I haven\u2019t eaten for over twelve hours. It takes those first few bites to get the saliva running, I suppose. At first, my body resists; but if I wait until my stomach growls, I sometimes don\u2019t eat till afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>This lethargy is mirrored in my inner life as well. Learning something new takes effort and isn\u2019t appealing at first\u2014until I\u2019ve turned the first few pages or clicked onto an engaging site. But once I\u2019ve started, the intellectual juices get flowing and I <i>feast<\/i> on ideas. It\u2019s the same with my soul; it needs nutrition as well, and too often the fast stretches long enough that I lose my appetite for things of the Spirit. I need to take the first bite to remember that the words of God are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb (Ps. 19:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 BREAKFAST I don\u2019t like to eat too early in the morning. Today it was ten before I cut up my usual oranges topped with plain yogurt and salted sunflower seeds, added a cappuccino made from freshly ground decaf beans, and for good measure juiced a couple of grapefruit. I\u2019m enjoying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rolledscroll.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}