{"id":88,"date":"2006-11-01T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/01\/death-pledge"},"modified":"2006-11-01T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T11:48:00","slug":"death-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/death-pledge.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"font-style:italic;\"><p>A man who builds his house with other people&#8217;s money<br \/>    is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sirach 21:8 (RSV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for the mortgage industry.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore worth remembering that the literal origin of the word &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mortgage#History\">mortgage<\/a>&#8216; is <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8216;<\/span><a style=\"font-style:italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mortgage#History\">death pledge<\/a><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8216;<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps it is time to remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usury\">usury<\/a> has been traditionally condemned as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/15235c.htm\">sin against justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who builds his house with other people&#8217;s money is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound. &#8212; Sirach 21:8 (RSV) So much for the mortgage industry. It is therefore worth remembering that the literal origin of the word &#8216;mortgage&#8216; is &#8216;death pledge&#8216;. And perhaps it is time to remember that usury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}