{"id":240,"date":"2023-01-31T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:06:16","slug":"spitting-out-the-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Spitting Out the Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sort of excited to do my new post-a-poem-every-Tuesday plan. But as I said in the last full paragraph of <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my first post<\/a>, no promises. <em>(Not to make everything come back to OCD, but one of its rules is <strong>anything<\/strong> can become compulsive &#8230; so I have to pay attention to the motive\/drive behind any commitment or rhythm.)<\/em><br><br>Anyway, I&#8217;m excited enough where I decided to do two &#8230; one here, and then this other one <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. I had two totally different type poems I was choosing from, and I thought, hey &#8212; why choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one, &#8220;Spitting out the Fruit,&#8221; is a Bible poem; I wrote it as an &#8220;I will&#8221; action statement after reading John 8:1-11 with a friend in a Discovery Bible Study to help me reflect further on it. The other one, <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;More Questions,&#8221;<\/a> is a different type&#8211;more directly personal.<br><br>I don&#8217;t know if you want to read the passage first or afterwards. Some of you may be familiar with it already &#8230; again, it&#8217;s John 8:1-11.<br><br>As always, honored by any engagement whatsoever with either of them!<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-520x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-249\" width=\"484\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-520x1024.jpg 520w, https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-768x1511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-781x1536.jpg 781w, https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox-900x1771.jpg 900w, https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot_20230131_080444_Dropbox.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of excited to do my new post-a-poem-every-Tuesday plan. But as I said in the last full paragraph of my first post, no promises. (Not to make everything come back to OCD, but one of its rules is anything can become compulsive &#8230; so I have to pay attention to the motive\/drive behind any commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}