{"id":5536,"date":"2012-12-03T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2013-02-19T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:09:31","slug":"thoughts-2012-12-03-nothing-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/uncategorized\/thoughts-2012-12-03-nothing-pb","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts  2012.12.03 Nothing PB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/uncategorized\/thoughts-2012-12-03-nothing-pb\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Nothing <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One year while I was Christmas shopping, I came across the weirdest thing I have ever seen. \u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>It was nothing.\u00a0 Literally nothing!<\/p>\n<p>It was a piece of cardboard packaging with a clear plastic \u201cbubble\u201d sticking out of it that contains nothing. Technically, I guess there is something in there, but it is the same as what is outside of it\u2014thin air.<\/p>\n<p>Get this.\u00a0 It cost $10! TEN DOLLARS FOR NOTHING! <strong>(It\u2019s \u201c<em>nothing\u201d<\/em> for <em>something<\/em>!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe it!<\/p>\n<p>Look!\u00a0 Here is the picture of nothing\u2026..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5537\" title=\"nothing for sale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/nothing-for-sale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I guess some suckers are buying it.\u00a0 After all, it may be the perfect gift for the guy or gal who already has everything.<\/p>\n<p>You know where this is going.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n<p><em>Isaiah 55:8-9:\u00a0 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Christmas season is always the busiest time of year.\u00a0 Most of us work hard to make it a wonderful holiday for our families but sometimes what we do and what we buy fails to satisfy the deepest spiritual longings of our hearts.\u00a0 What God offers us now and all year long we can buy \u201cwithout money and without price.\u201d (Isaiah 55:1)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cSomething\u201d <\/em><\/strong><strong>for<em> nothing!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SO<\/strong> much better than a package of nothing!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I found \u201cnothing\u201d on sale this year for the bargain price of $6.28!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>~ Sister Pat Barton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing One year while I was Christmas shopping, I came across the weirdest thing I have ever seen. \u00a0 \u00a0It was nothing.\u00a0 Literally nothing! It was a piece of cardboard packaging with a clear plastic \u201cbubble\u201d sticking out of it that contains nothing. Technically, I guess there is something in there, but it is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}