{"id":216892497,"date":"2009-10-19T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundbyyou.tumblr.com\/post\/216892497"},"modified":"2009-10-19T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T12:05:00","slug":"free-isnt-always-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216892497","title":{"rendered":"Free isn&#039;t always good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/10.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_krqwt1ht6a1qa3oc1o1_r1_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Free isn\u2019t always good. During a bible class about a month back, our pastor handed out some complimentary Bible tabs.  Ever the skinflint, I scooped up a set and spent hours carefully applying them to my favourite church\/daily devotions NLT Bible &#8211; and almost immediately regretted it.<\/p>\n<p>Tabs obscuring tabs, tabs tearing pages (of Lamentations appropriately enough), tabs generally making life more difficult &#8211; all of which are pretty much the antithesis of their stated purpose.  Early Saturday morning, with a fortifying coffee in one hand and the kitchen scissors in the other, I removed them and got the Bible I\u2019d missed.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free isn\u2019t always good. During a bible class about a month back, our pastor handed out some complimentary Bible tabs. Ever the skinflint, I scooped up a set and spent hours carefully applying them to my favourite church\/daily devotions NLT Bible &#8211; and almost immediately regretted it. Tabs obscuring tabs, tabs tearing pages (of Lamentations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51,162,197,210,211],"class_list":["post-216892497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bible","tag-nlt","tag-scissors","tag-tabless","tag-tabs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216892497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216892497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216892497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216892497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216892497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}