{"id":45133,"date":"2015-06-11T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45133"},"modified":"2015-06-11T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T00:05:10","slug":"miraculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45133","title":{"rendered":"Miraculous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; miracle in Egypt, human perfection in Russia ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vladimir Putin says he has never made a mistake because God wanted him to be perfect <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ZwDu0bnekk\">http:\/\/t.co\/ZwDu0bnekk<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/CpxSi1srjP\">pic.twitter.com\/CpxSi1srjP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Independent (@Independent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Independent\/status\/608568820010246144\">June 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not entirely clear, then, why he would need to be &#8220;shriven &#8221; &#8212; have his confession heard and be granted absolution &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.greekreporter.com\/2011\/02\/08\/vladimir-putin-gets-confession-session-with-abbot-ephraim\/\">by <strong>Abbot Ephraim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, though &#8212; <strong>Putin<\/strong>&#8216;s exact words, as reported in the body of the <em>Independent <\/em>post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It appears that the Lord built my life in a way that I have nothing to regret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not quite the same thing as &#8220;God wanted him to be perfect&#8221; &#8212; although, doesn&#8217;t God want that for everyone? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+5%3A48&#038;version=KJV\">Matthew 5.48<\/a>, at least in the King James version.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Egypt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Egypt mosque preacher: a man&#39;s tongue was paralysed when he tried to pray against Sisi, who then appeared in a vision <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/55hEjmBLyC\">http:\/\/t.co\/55hEjmBLyC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samer Al-Atrush (@SameralAtrush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SameralAtrush\/status\/608765761428054017\">June 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; miracle in Egypt, human perfection in Russia ] . Vladimir Putin says he has never made a mistake because God wanted him to be perfect http:\/\/t.co\/ZwDu0bnekk pic.twitter.com\/CpxSi1srjP &mdash; The Independent (@Independent) June 10, 2015 It&#8217;s not entirely clear, then, why he would need to be &#8220;shriven &#8221; &#8212; have his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1151,673,1131,88,91,754,676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doubletweets","category-egypt","category-miracle","category-putin","category-russia","category-sacrament","category-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45137,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45133\/revisions\/45137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}