{"id":3097,"date":"2026-07-30T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:15:12","slug":"august-2-2026-isaiah-58-the-fast-of-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3097","title":{"rendered":"August 2, 2026 &#8211; Isaiah 58 &#8211; The Fast of Ab Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prophet Isaiah pointed out that the people were fasting to get God&#8217;s attention in order to manipulate Him. Instead, he insisted, the true fast was giving up yourself, and would be evidenced by kindness to the poor and obedience to God&#8217;s commandments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityoncolumbia.org\/pdf\/Readings_Notes\/Isaiah58_Notes.pdf\">Notes on Isaiah 58:1-14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prophet Isaiah pointed out that the people were fasting to get God&#8217;s attention in order to manipulate Him. Instead, he insisted, the true fast was giving up yourself, and would be evidenced by kindness to the poor and obedience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=3097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3100,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}