{"id":782,"date":"2019-09-24T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=782"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:08:55","slug":"greta-the-truth-teller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/greta-the-truth-teller\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta, the Truth Teller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old climate conscience spoke to the world &#8220;leaders&#8221; gathered at the United Nations. She spoke the truth of what humanity faces more clearly than anyone: extinction, pure and simple. Listen to her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Greta Thunberg&#039;s full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAJsdgTPJpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Listen to her, listen!`<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, president Trump mocked her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is what I felt after hearing her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Greta:<br \/> \u201cThe wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,<br \/> The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,<br \/> The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;<br \/> And a little child shall lead them.<br \/> Isaiah 11:6<br \/> As you know, this has nothing to do with a child leading adults as is often assumed. It has everything to do with leading the animals. Only the child has the wisdom to do this and in the coming time, it is this that will be crucial as a way to face the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not expecting anyone to get what I am saying here. That&#8217;s OK. I&#8217;ll elaborate on this theme later. For now, let it be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old climate conscience spoke to the world &#8220;leaders&#8221; gathered at the United Nations. She spoke the truth of what humanity faces more clearly than anyone: extinction, pure and simple. Listen to her: In response, president Trump mocked her: &#8220;She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}