{"id":5925,"date":"2025-04-07T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T09:22:51","slug":"a-drought-threatened-the-crop-in-a-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5925","title":{"rendered":"A drought threatened the crop in a small town."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One summer, a drought threatened the crop in a small town.<\/p>\n<p>On a hot and dry Sunday, the village parson told his congregation, \u201cThere isn\u2019t anything that will save us except to pray for rain. Go home, pray, believe, and come back next Sunday ready to thank God for sending rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The people did as they were told and returned to church the following Sunday. But as soon as the parson saw them, he was furious\u2026!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t worship today. You do NOT yet believe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut,\u201d they protested, \u201cwe prayed, and we do believe!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve???\u201d he responded. \u201cThen where are your umbrellas???\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One summer, a drought threatened the crop in a small town. On a hot and dry Sunday, the village parson told his congregation, \u201cThere isn\u2019t anything that will save us except to pray for rain. Go home, pray, believe, and come back next Sunday ready to thank God for sending rain.\u201d The people did as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}