{"id":8966,"date":"2024-10-03T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8966"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:57","slug":"35-bucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8966","title":{"rendered":"35 BUCKS?!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this better described as unintentional irony on the part of Hobby Lobby &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or intentional chutzpah on the part of the Chinese?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241001_154453-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241001_154503-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2252\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you imagine what good could be accomplished if every Christian in this country took the money they &#8220;budgeted&#8221; for Christmas presents, decorations, and food and spent it on Kingdom work instead?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose there&#8217;s a good chance it would crash the world economy, though.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what can you do?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. I just realized the punctuation is off. It&#8217;s missing a comma and one set of quotation marks. How could anyone buy this???\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And how did I not notice when I saw this on the shelf? My English teacher radar must be getting rusty.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this better described as unintentional irony on the part of Hobby Lobby &#8230; Or intentional chutzpah on the part of the Chinese? Can you imagine what good could be accomplished if every Christian in this country took the money they &#8220;budgeted&#8221; for Christmas presents, decorations, and food and spent it on Kingdom work instead? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}