{"id":4802,"date":"2016-08-17T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:24:58","slug":"jefferson-said-more-than-he-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/jefferson-said-more-than-he-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Said More Than He Meant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\"><b>Jefferson Said More Than He Meant <\/b><br \/>\n<i>By David Jordan<\/i><o_p><\/o_p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\">Jefferson said more than he meant. <br \/>\nInspired words pushing <br \/>\nBoundaries of self-evident truth <br \/>\nExpanding <br \/>\nBeyond small-mindedness <br \/>\nEclipsing the glittering prose <br \/>\n&ldquo;All Men Created Equal&rdquo; <br \/>\nIt was more than he meant.<br \/>\n&nbsp;An idea <br \/>\nExploding <br \/>\nPast former lines of demarcation <br \/>\nImaginations swelling <br \/>\nOver oceans that no longer constrain <br \/>\nA freedom bequeathed and bloodied<br \/>\nAnd moving forward <br \/>\nAn arc of history<br \/>\nBending toward justice. <br \/>\nSubversive <br \/>\nIncreasingly self-evident <br \/>\nGod&rsquo;s Truth Marching on. <br \/>\nYes. Jefferson said more <br \/>\nThan he meant &hellip; <br \/>\nOr ever, even imagined. <span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><o_p><\/o_p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>Dr. David Jordan is Teaching Pastor, Providence Baptist Church Charlotte, North Carolina<o_p><\/o_p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson Said More Than He Meant By David Jordan Jefferson said more than he meant. Inspired words pushing ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,132,145],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}