{"id":5602,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dumping-the-cotton\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:05","slug":"dumping-the-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dumping-the-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"DUMPING\n  THE COTTON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Change; Habits; Traditions<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> Mark 7:1\u201313<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Bayer Corporation has stopped putting cotton wads in its aspirin bottles. The company realized the aspirin would hold up fine without the maddening white clumps, which it had included since about 1914.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cWe concluded there really wasn\u2019t any reason to keep the cotton except tradition,\u201d said Chris Allen, Bayer\u2019s vice president of technical operations. \u201cBesides, it\u2019s hard to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Likewise, long-standing traditions in the church can also be more annoying than helpful.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Ed Rowell, \u201cParting from Tradition,\u201d PreachingToday.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Change; Habits; Traditions Reference: Mark 7:1\u201313 Bayer Corporation has stopped putting cotton wads in its aspirin bottles. The company realized the aspirin would hold up fine without the maddening white clumps, which it had included since about 1914. \u201cWe concluded there really wasn\u2019t any reason to keep the cotton except tradition,\u201d said Chris Allen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dumping-the-cotton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DUMPING<br \/>\n  THE COTTON&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}