{"id":11184,"date":"2015-10-01T01:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T01:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2015-10-02T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T00:10:51","slug":"almighty-pays-us-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11184","title":{"rendered":"Almighty pays us back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11185\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sunset-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" width=\"536\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sunset-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sunset.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an original thought, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll share it here.<\/p>\n<p>Theories can be proven. Some, though, cannot. My own theory about pictures such as the one I snapped tonight at sunset is that God Almighty is capable of payback.<\/p>\n<p>What the heck. God is capable of anything. Am I correct?<\/p>\n<p>Earth was created with plenty of natural splendor. Lots of mountains, valleys, dense forests, spectacular coastlines, lakes and meadows &#8230; you name it. They blanket our planet and give us plenty of eye candy to cherish.<\/p>\n<p>The Almighty, though, didn&#8217;t grace the entire planet with that kind of splendor. He gave some regions terrain such as what surrounds us in Amarillo. It&#8217;s flat, non-descript and, yes, it can be boring.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Almighty did give us this enormous sky. I&#8217;ve noted before that whoever pinned the &#8220;Big Sky&#8221; label on Montana didn&#8217;t lay eyes on the High Plains region.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the sun sets as it did tonight, the first thought that crosses my mind is that God is paying us back for denying this region the physical splendor that&#8217;s been spread\u00a0over much of the rest of the planet we call home.<\/p>\n<p>What the Almighty didn&#8217;t grant us in that kind of eye-popping grandeur is compensated for with\u00a0that huge sky that lights up at the <em>beginning and end<\/em> of these glorious days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t an original thought, I&#8217;m sure. Still, I&#8217;ll share it here. Theories can be proven. Some, though, cannot. My own theory about pictures such as the one I snapped tonight at sunset is that God Almighty is capable of payback. What the heck. God is capable of anything. Am I correct? Earth was created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Almighty pays us back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions\/11198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}