{"id":1290,"date":"2012-10-29T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:14:54","slug":"people-politicians-and-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"People, Politicians and Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> &#8220;In a multitude of people is a king&#8217;s glory, But in the dearth of people is a prince&#8217;s ruin.&#8221;<\/strong> (Proverbs 14:28)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Popularity.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1292\" title=\"Popularity.1\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Popularity.1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Popularity.1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Popularity.1.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The point of this proverb is simple enough\u2014numbers equal renown in the world of politics &#8230;&#8221; BUT &#8220;&#8230; official position means little when people are not following you. A post without people is pointless. Titles without influence are worthless. The king is ultimately expendable (Prov. 30:27) or at least replaceable (1 Sam. 16:1), but not the people (2 Sam. 19:7).&#8221; (<a title=\"Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Proverbs-Mentor-Commentary-John-Kitchen\/dp\/1845500598\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1251481962&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary<\/a>, p.318)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a multitude of people is a king&#8217;s glory, But in the dearth of people is a prince&#8217;s ruin.&#8221; (Proverbs 14:28) &#8220;The point of this proverb is simple enough\u2014numbers equal renown in the world of politics &#8230;&#8221; BUT &#8220;&#8230; official position means little when people are not following you. A post without people is pointless. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-proverbs","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-kO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}