{"id":1794,"date":"2021-02-06T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/02\/06\/the-5-books-meander-week-16-yitro\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T22:55:12","slug":"the-5-books-meander-week-16-yitro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/02\/06\/the-5-books-meander-week-16-yitro\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Books Meander, Week 16 (Yitro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gang brings Jethro up to speed, and God makes a memorable appearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A couple of thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where much of Exodus thus far has hit me with a political vibe, this one seemed to be full of great work advice. For example, Jethro basically tells Moses &#8220;you really have to learn to delegate &#8212; everyone will be happier if you do.\u201d Ancient advice that people have been ignoring for a few thousand years. Likewise, it had never hit me before today how interesting it is that \u201ctake a day off\u201d is one of the top 10 most important things you can do. Don\u2019t murder, don\u2019t steal. And take a chill day, because God did.<\/li>\n<li>I always figured don&#8217;t lie was a commandment. But that&#8217;s not quite what it says. \u201cDon\u2019t bear false witness against your neighbor,\u201d we&#8217;re told. Which feels to me much more like a (super important) requirement for having-neighbors-and-not-killing-each-other (aka living with other humans) than it does an abstract virtue. Verily, this is the Good <em>and<\/em>  Practical Book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to join in\u2026 this is the place for comments and commentary on Yitro (Exodus 18.1 \u2013 20.23)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up:<\/strong> Mishpatim (Exodus 21.1 \u2013 24.18)<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: The gang brings Jethro up to speed, and God makes a memorable appearance. A couple of thoughts: Where much of Exodus thus far has hit me with a political vibe, this one seemed to be full of great work advice. For example, Jethro basically tells Moses &#8220;you really have to learn to delegate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}