{"id":146,"date":"2006-02-21T05:29:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-11-26T05:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T05:30:08","slug":"feelin-prosperous-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Feelin&#8217; prosperous today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/pseudofood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;m taking a few minutes to eat here at work, with a bowl of my favorite canned pseudo-food. Saying grace before dinner, it occurred to me again that we really live like kings here in the Bismarck-Mandan area. The least among us has got life infinitely better than the majority of the people in this world. We make fun of &#8220;pseudo food&#8221; like this stuff; yet it&#8217;s more nutrition than many people might see in a week. It&#8217;s <strong>certainly<\/strong> more sodium!<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps it&#8217;s just the theme of the day&#8230;while shoveling generic Cap&#8217;n Crunch into my head this morning, it occurred to me that there are millions, perhaps billions, of people out there who are so undernourished that their teeth probably couldn&#8217;t even handle Cap&#8217;n Crunch.<\/p>\n<p>I think of Philippians 4:11 in the Bible: &#8220;Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.&#8221; Or Titus 6:8 as well: &#8220;And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.&#8221; We as Americans are very prosperous. I don&#8217;t consider that an accident, either. But it should occur to us daily to be thankful for, and good stewards of, all that we have. In today&#8217;s society, and with technology advancing as fast as it is, it&#8217;s very difficult to be content. But we should always be thankful&#8230;and not to Chef Boy Ar Dee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking a few minutes to eat here at work, with a bowl of my favorite canned pseudo-food. Saying grace before dinner, it occurred to me again that we really live like kings here in the Bismarck-Mandan area. The least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=146\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}