{"id":53358,"date":"2015-04-12T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=53358"},"modified":"2015-04-12T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T17:59:57","slug":"gird-up-your-loins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/12\/gird-up-your-loins\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to &#8220;gird up your loins&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Scripture the reader is often told to <span style=\"color: #993300\">&#8220;gird up your loins&#8221;<\/span>, but what does that actually mean?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/2014\/10\/02\/how-to-gird-up-your-loins-an-illustrated-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-12-at-11.49.56-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-01-12 at 11.49.56 AM\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-12-at-11.49.56-AM.png 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-12-at-11.49.56-AM-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-01-12-at-11.49.56-AM-600x365.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<em>&#8220;&#8230;Thus to tell someone to &#8216;gird up their loins&#8217; was to tell them to get ready for hard work or battle. It was the ancient way of saying &#8216;man up!&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Scripture the reader is often told to &#8220;gird up your loins&#8221;, but what does that actually mean? \u00a0&#8220;&#8230;Thus to tell someone to &#8216;gird up their loins&#8217; was to tell them to get ready for hard work or battle. It was the ancient way of saying &#8216;man up!&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1656,2983,2982],"class_list":["post-53358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-art-of-manliness","tag-gird-up-your-loins","tag-loins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57208,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53358\/revisions\/57208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}