{"id":368,"date":"2004-05-04T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=368"},"modified":"2004-05-04T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T15:35:34","slug":"honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonite was impressed by few people that display a distinct quality of honesty as i&#8217;ve never seen before so closely.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re very persuasive and honest and same time, and there&#8217;s real power in it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very different from bluffing and other kinds of persuasiveness that i&#8217;ve seen everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The bible puts this:<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 24:26<\/p>\n<p><em>An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonite was impressed by few people that display a distinct quality of honesty as i&#8217;ve never seen before so closely. They&#8217;re very persuasive and honest and same time, and there&#8217;s real power in it. It&#8217;s very different from bluffing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/honesty\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,50],"tags":[200,270],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honesty","category-proverbs","tag-honesty","tag-proverb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/better-to-be-poor-than-a-liar\/","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":0},"title":"Better to be Poor than a Liar","author":"clay","date":"April 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This afternoon, as I read on Proverbs 19, the following things surface: How does it feel to be poor: but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.(v.4b) The poor are shunned by all their relatives\u2014 how much more do their friends avoid them! 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