{"id":38456,"date":"2011-05-24T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/38456\/promised-land\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:13:17","slug":"promised-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/38456\/promised-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Promised Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all began several thousands of years ago.  A mythical Abraham moved into the land that is now called Israel.  He lived in peace with his neighbors.  Several generations later a famine struck and his mythical descendents moved to Egypt where they were treated a lot better than most Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p>After several generations in Egypt they supposedly began to be treated like Egyptians and didn&#8217;t like it.  Another mythical figure named Moses brought them out of Egypt.  After leaving Egypt Moses died and another mythical figure name Joshua took charge.  He even talked to God (we all knows about those who talk to God).  God told him to kill every man, woman and child in the land and they could have it.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Kingdom was born through the genocide of indigenous people.  Why?  Because God spoke to Joshua and told him to do it.<\/p>\n<p>So this \u201cpromised land\u201d taken by force through the genocide of the people who lived there is the basis of the modern Israel state.  One that was created through the forced removal of the indigenous population.  Sound familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all began several thousands of years ago. A mythical Abraham moved into the land that is now called Israel. He lived in peace with his neighbors. Several generations later a famine struck and his mythical descendents moved to Egypt where they were treated a lot better than most Egyptians. After several generations in Egypt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1428,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-politics-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}