{"id":1257,"date":"2021-02-05T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2021-02-07T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T02:22:54","slug":"12-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/12-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Some of you will recall in that great book\u00a0<em>Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>\u00a0by John Bunyan that the main character known as Christian was trying to press forward to gain entrance to the celestial city. He made it to his goal, but in order to do so, he had to overcome many obstacles, one of which was to escape from the Giant Despair. To lift our spirit and send us on our way rejoicing, the devil\u2019s designs of despair, discouragement, depression, and despondency can be defeated in a dozen ways, namely: repentance, prayer, service, work, health, reading, blessings, fasting, friends, music, endurance, and goals. \u2013\u00a0<em>Ezra Taft Benson, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/1974\/10\/do-not-despair?lang=eng\">Do Not Despair<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) November 1974<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will recall in that great book\u00a0Pilgrim\u2019s Progress\u00a0by John Bunyan that the main character known as Christian was trying to press forward to gain entrance to the celestial city. He made it to his goal, but in order to do so, he had to overcome many obstacles, one of which was to escape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[476,378],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-despair","tag-overcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}