{"id":206,"date":"2013-04-21T05:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2013-04-21T05:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T09:16:02","slug":"the-ten-plaques-of-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Plaques of Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words.<\/p>\n<p>I ate my way into the Book of Exodus. It was dark, and the stories were terrifying. But as so often happens when a reader is three weeks of age, some words are misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>Moses was telling Pharoah to Let Me People Go. \u00a0When Phraroah refused, Moses brought down the ten plaques on him. \u00a0Pharoah was unmoved through the first nine. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t surprised. Why should this great and powerful king be brought low by plaque&#8211;gruesome though it is to look at? How mighty could God be if that&#8217;s the best he could muster?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/periodntitis-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-209\" alt=\"periodntitis 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/periodntitis-2-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At two months my entire family of 38 emerged from the different books in the shelf. We had stories, but I knew mine was best and I waited to be last. \u00a0When I was done Homer clapped me on the carapace and said, &#8220;Not PLAQUES, clodhopper. \u00a0PLAGUES.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words. I ate my way into the Book of Exodus. It was dark, and the stories were terrifying. But as so often happens when a reader is three weeks of age, some words are misunderstood. Moses was telling Pharoah to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}