{"id":2634,"date":"2010-06-17T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2010-06-17T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T22:04:53","slug":"1-foot-in-the-grave-and-3-feet-on-a-banana-peel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/1-foot-in-the-grave-and-3-feet-on-a-banana-peel\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;1 foot in the grave and 3 feet on a banana peel&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2635\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/brink.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2635\" title=\"brink\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/brink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brink.jpg 446w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brink-350x240.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brink-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would this sign work for people too?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes we get awfully close to the brink. Maybe 94 steps. Could that take a day? A week? Two weeks?<\/p>\n<p>What does it take to take a few steps back?<\/p>\n<p>Rest? A new Perspective? A change?<\/p>\n<p>In the movie <em>Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em>, the euphemism &#8220;1 foot in the grave and 3 feet on a banana peel&#8221; was used to describe a fox in a precarious spot.<\/p>\n<p>What we often don&#8217;t realize is that the &#8220;brink&#8221; is just the first of many.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">When have you felt &#8220;at the brink&#8221;?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">What was the result&#8230;or how did it turn out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to the Brink<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[331,501,14,18,963,1122,1124,1234,1396,37,51,2536,57,78,3751],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-bad-shape","tag-brink","tag-christians","tag-depression","tag-despair","tag-end","tag-end-of-my-rope","tag-fantastic-mr-fox","tag-funny-signs","tag-hope","tag-ministry","tag-perspective","tag-philosophy","tag-stress","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}