{"id":147,"date":"2020-06-24T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:01:05","slug":"people-are-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/people-are-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Awful!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width: 140px;float:left;margin-right:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JackiBelile-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Jacki Belile\">That&#8217;s what I heard myself say as Erin and I discussed the latest email &#8220;phishing&#8221; attempt that led to some of receiving scammy requests from a fellow member&#8217;s email address.\u00a0 The inundating we face of people trying to scam and take advantage&#8230; it does set me on edge of\u00a0compassion. Here&#8217;s the obligatory reminder:<br>\u00a0<strong><em>We will NEVER ASK YOU to purchase anything like gift cards or make electronic financial transfers to Eden&#8217;s accounts or send info on your bank accounts.\u00a0 We will never ask you for passwords or personal\/sensitive information.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br><strong>Please be cautious when receiving these requests from friends and family, even if they seem legitimate. Make a phone call to that person to make sure it is real before every purchasing anything or giving out personal information!<\/strong><br><br><strong>NOW THAT THAT&#8217;S DONE&#8230; Don&#8217;t forget that people are not ONLY awful. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And, remember that God tends to the conversion of all hearts and lives so that we might know the joy of living in Christ&#8217;s reconciling and blessing life!<\/strong><br><br><strong>Peace and love,<\/strong><br><strong>Pastor Jacki<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I heard myself say as Erin and I discussed the latest email &#8220;phishing&#8221; attempt that led to some of receiving scammy requests from a fellow member&#8217;s email address.\u00a0 The inundating we face of people trying to scam and take advantage&#8230; it does set me on edge of\u00a0compassion. Here&#8217;s the obligatory reminder:\u00a0We will NEVER<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/people-are-awful\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}