{"id":135949,"date":"2023-09-02T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135949"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:17:53","slug":"a-cup-of-fresh-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-cup-of-fresh-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup of Fresh Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.\u201d ~ Matthew 10:42 (NIV)<\/p>\n<p>Giving those in need a cup of fresh water<br \/>\nregulates their body&#8217;s temperature,<br \/>\nhelping speed the stomach&#8217;s digestive process,<br \/>\nflushing toxins from the blood stream and kidneys,<br \/>\nmoistens tissues and protects vital organs,<br \/>\ncarries much needed oxygen to the cells,<br \/>\nand dissolves minerals and vitamins&#8211;<br \/>\nas also reflecting well on the giver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.\u201d ~ Matthew 10:42 (NIV) Giving those in need a cup of fresh water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145601,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135949\/revisions\/145601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}