{"id":20,"date":"2008-09-20T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.deserthillspc.org\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-09-20T11:31:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:31:49","slug":"frogs-in-the-machine-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/frogs-in-the-machine-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Frogs in the Machine Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preaching from Exodus 8 &#8212; the plague of frogs on Egypt &#8212; and I crack up every time I read that story. I laugh partly because it&#8217;s intrinsically funny, but partly because of this picture:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/2873363142\/\" title=\"Frogs in the Machine Room by Mess of Pottage, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3206\/2873363142_2340415509_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"217\" alt=\"Frogs in the Machine Room\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>which I clipped out of a computer magazine some years ago. I assume it was for some kind of disaster recovery service, but honestly, I don&#8217;t remember.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pictures like this that make me wish I could project pictures on a screen during worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preaching from Exodus 8 &#8212; the plague of frogs on Egypt &#8212; and I crack up every time I read that story. I laugh partly because it&#8217;s intrinsically funny, but partly because of this picture: which I clipped out of a computer magazine some years ago. I assume it was for some kind of &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/frogs-in-the-machine-room\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,24],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bible","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}