{"id":38,"date":"2011-08-04T16:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-07-12T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T11:46:05","slug":"we-lay-our-future-in-thy-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"We Lay Our Future in Thy Hands!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/1lk1xi4cfy0i21okqqtz5u518zo.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/movedc-uganda-flag.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" class \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Uganda flag at an Invisible Children match.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\nOk, let me not be the joy killer here but with the very limited TV we get to see at our house\u00a0(and no radio for me!),\u00a0I haven&#8217;t been seeing much of the goings-on, save for the occasional You-Tube video and newspaper reports. And am not a politician (and I have to constantly fight the deep and abiding disdain I have for the wolves in sheep-skin that masquerade under that title\u00a0in this town) but the images of women, children, by-standers (and hospitalized patients!) being subjected to police brutality that I saw on the news last night kept me thinking long and hard into the night and wondering what God would have me do for my part. Then I was reminded of the\u00a0famous quote by Martin Niemoller:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First they came for the communists,\u00a0and I didn&#8217;t speak out because I wasn&#8217;t a communist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then they came for the trade unionists,\u00a0and I didn&#8217;t speak out because I wasn&#8217;t a trade unionist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then they came for the Jews,\u00a0and I didn&#8217;t speak out because I wasn&#8217;t a Jew.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then they came for me\u00a0and there was no one left to speak out for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0UGANDA &#8211; May God uphold you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, let me not be the joy killer here but with the very limited TV we get to see at our house\u00a0(and no radio for me!),\u00a0I haven&#8217;t been seeing much of the goings-on, save for the occasional You-Tube video and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/?p=38\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacob.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}