{"id":5277,"date":"2014-12-17T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/a-matter-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T04:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T11:20:29","slug":"a-matter-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/a-matter-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"A matter of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Increase property taxes. Increase sales taxes. Rendering to Caesar makes for energetic responses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Property owners can grow veggies, fruits, some bushes of berries. Share with some neighbors and friends.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>When the big food stores see the net result of increased sales taxes, customers will buy less, throw less food away. Shoppers may experience more dissatisfied store employees who are aware &#8220;sales are dipping &#8230; will I lose my job also?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>We will want our cities to be safe places where cleanliness is evidence by everyone. Citizens will sacrifice for others up to a point.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The incomes of many citizens are not increasing. Rendering to Caesar is a no-brainer. Rendering to God is what makes anyone more human, more generous and more grateful, that the best things we give to ourselves and our neighbors is given to us freely.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sit down with your family and friends and think about faith in God.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Karen Wittgens<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase property taxes. Increase sales taxes. Rendering to Caesar makes for energetic responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5277"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}