{"id":98141,"date":"2022-11-19T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98141"},"modified":"2022-11-19T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:18:10","slug":"driven-to-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/driven-to-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven to Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Driven to Sin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man came to tell me that he was saved from a car accident in a most miraculous manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere were you headed when you had the accident?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>The man was embarrassed by my question and did not want to answer. But eventually, I learned that he had been headed to a place of ill repute.<\/p>\n<p>I chastised him for his wrongdoings. \u201cSee how ungrateful you were! With great kindness, Hashem granted you a car. This was so that you would be able to arrive at prayers on time and have access to Torah <em>shiurim<\/em>. What did you do? You went ahead and used this gift as an implement of sin, to anger your Creator. Is this not a blatant sign of ingratitude?<\/p>\n<p><em>The man was deeply ashamed of his deeds. I hope my words made an impression upon him, bringing him back from his wayward ways.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven to Sin A man came to tell me that he was saved from a car accident in a most miraculous manner. \u201cWhere were you headed when you had the accident?\u201d I asked. The man was embarrassed by my question and did not want to answer. But eventually, I learned that he had been headed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}