{"id":2907,"date":"2010-08-20T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2010-08-20T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:03:32","slug":"the-tattoo-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"The Tattoo, Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I have looked at tattoos with interest but I have never seen a tattoo that I was interested in having on my body.  I have a niece that has several tattoos from her Olympic contests and my youngest daughter recently got one.  And while they are nice, they are not something that I am interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I saw a music video from a Christian band, and I noted that they all had tattoos in Hebrew on their forearms.  The Hebrew spelled out the various names of God as found in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n<p>How cool!  When I saw it, I knew that I had finally found the one thing that I would like to have tattooed on my body, one of the names for God in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>I selected one from the more than 2 dozen names for God which are found in the Old Testament; El Shaddai.  Since I belong to God, it seemed only natural to have His name tattooed on my body.  Plus, it gives me an opportunity to witness to others about God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, I have looked at tattoos with interest but I have never seen a tattoo that I was interested in having on my body. I have a niece that has several tattoos from her Olympic contests and my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=2907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-KT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}