{"id":717,"date":"2011-05-18T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:06:40","slug":"we-press-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"we press on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-718\" title=\"presson\" src=\"http:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/presson.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" \/>Tonight in church, two of our teens sang a song that deeply touched my heart. I&#8217;ve been familiar with this particular song for probably more than a decade, but tonight it meant something special, so I thought I would post the lyrics. It&#8217;s called &#8220;We Press On&#8221;:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen the valley is deep, when the mountain is steep<br \/>\nWhen the body is weary, when we stumble and fall<br \/>\nWhen the choices are hard, when we&#8217;re battered and scarred<br \/>\nWhen we&#8217;ve spent our resources, when we&#8217;ve given our all<br \/>\nChorus:<br \/>\nIn Jesus&#8217; name, we press on, in Jesus&#8217; name, we press on<br \/>\nDear Lord, with the prize clear before our eyes<br \/>\nWe find the strength to press on<br \/>\nBy Dan Burgess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight in church, two of our teens sang a song that deeply touched my heart. I&#8217;ve been familiar with this particular song for probably more than a decade, but tonight it meant something special, so I thought I would post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/?p=717\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodgkins.caryschmidt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}