{"id":11179,"date":"2023-05-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2023-05-06T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T02:13:58","slug":"a-little-white-lie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/a-little-white-lie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little White Lie!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"A Little White Lie! 5\/09\/23\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=e9h64-13ff29b-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=0&#038;download=0&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Garamond&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=ffffff&#038;logo_link=none&#038;btn-skin=3267a3\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 98-years old, decided on February 21, 2023 to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981 he spoke at Southern Methodist University and related an incident that happened to his mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A woman reporter came to Plains, Georgia, to interview his&nbsp;mother&nbsp;Lillian in order to do an article about Mr. Carter and his family. His&nbsp;mother&nbsp;really didn&#8217;t want to be interviewed, but was simply being gracious and agreed to the interview.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when the reporter knocked at her door, Mrs. Carter invited her in. The reporter asked some hard questions and actually was rather aggressive and rude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;I want to ask you a question,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;she said.&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Your son ran for the presidency on the premise that he would always tell the truth. Has he ever lied?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Carter said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s truthful. I think you can depend on his word.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reporter again asked if he had ever lied in his entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His&nbsp;mother&nbsp;said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Well, I guess maybe he&#8217;s told a little white lie.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Ah, see there!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;the reporter exclaimed.&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;He&#8217;s lied! If he told a white lie, he has lied.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reporter was still not satisfied and asked her,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;What is a white lie?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point Lillian Carter said,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a moment ago when you knocked on the door and I went to the door and said I was glad to see you. That was a white lie.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Magda Ehlers for the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do YOU think about lying and about always telling the truth? What makes YOU say that?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PRAYER IS THE BRIDGE FROM YOUR MESS TO GOD\u2019S BEST!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 98-years old, decided on February 21, 2023 to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.&nbsp; After Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981 he spoke at Southern Methodist University and related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH.jpg",118,78,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/TRUTH-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 98-years old, decided on February 21, 2023 to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.&nbsp; After Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981 he spoke at Southern Methodist University and related&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}