{"id":252,"date":"2014-12-09T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-12-09T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:14:34","slug":"love-is-a-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Love Is A Scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Love Is A Scam?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long ago there was a man<\/p>\n<p>who thought love was just a scam.<\/p>\n<p>Who needs love to survive?<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need love to chuck &amp; jive.<\/p>\n<p>I can go and do it all.<\/p>\n<p>Love will only make me fall.<\/p>\n<p>His beliefs became so extreme.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t care about anything.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t care if babies died.<\/p>\n<p>His mother died &amp; he didn\u2019t cry.<\/p>\n<p>People asked him what was wrong?<\/p>\n<p>He said love\u2019s a scam. It won\u2019t take long<\/p>\n<p>for all the emotions to come on strong.<\/p>\n<p>Just ignore all of loves mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get sucked in is all it takes.<\/p>\n<p>People dying is part of life.<\/p>\n<p>Never let it bring you strife.<\/p>\n<p>So your \u2018lover\u2019 breaks up with you.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing he can do.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sucked into the scam.<\/p>\n<p>You can walk away like a man.<\/p>\n<p>Love triggers many accompanying feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Often these can leave you reeling.<\/p>\n<p>Live a life almost stress free.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ll only do like me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, one day, he was hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>It was life or death with a lot of scars.<\/p>\n<p>He started feeling really scared.<\/p>\n<p>Should he voice it, if he dared.<\/p>\n<p>Then he told a really understanding nurse.<\/p>\n<p>She gave him comfort. She didn\u2019t curse.<\/p>\n<p>She read the Bible to him when she had time.<\/p>\n<p>After a few verses he saw his crime.<\/p>\n<p>God was love, as pure as it can be.<\/p>\n<p>It was no scam, he could now see.<\/p>\n<p>If you love another it\u2019s just like God.<\/p>\n<p>Spreading love around is in no way odd.<\/p>\n<p>He left the hospital a different man.<\/p>\n<p>He said I will do all I can<\/p>\n<p>to spread love to all in every way.<\/p>\n<p>He is still doing that today.<\/p>\n<p>He is the pastor of our local church.<\/p>\n<p>He loves all who come to church.<\/p>\n<p>He would never turn anyone away.<\/p>\n<p>He says love is the only way.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2014)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Love Is A Scam? Long ago there was a man who thought love was just a scam. Who needs love to survive? I don\u2019t need love to chuck &amp; jive. I can go and do it all. Love will only make me fall. His beliefs became so extreme. He didn\u2019t care about anything. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love Is A Scam?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}