{"id":4693,"date":"2026-05-29T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:02:17","slug":"the-great-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/?p=4693","title":{"rendered":"The Great Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People really like to act like they aren&#8217;t talking about me when they are. A friend of mine once said, &#8220;His head is so big, he thinks the world revolves around him, he even thinks the pastor&#8217;s sermon is about him&#8221;. Given all that has happened since then, he should look back and know that he was a fool for saying that. Brad Linkns at Life Baptist Church should know all about this. His entire hate-filled rant was all about me. He insulted me and attacked me personally throughout the sermon.   Of course, he can mask his intent and pretend it meant something else, like I&#8217;m just perceiving it that way, but if you know me well enough and you listen to the sermon, its clearly about me. When I confronted him about this, he said: &#8220;I had no one in mind when I preached that sermon.&#8221; He might be able to fool a crowd, but if people know the context in which all of this was said, anyone would know he was talking about me. In the future, I&#8217;ll just walk out of the church&#8211;I&#8217;m longing to show disrespect to people that disrespect me.  I&#8217;ve been living the Truman Show, where everyone is trying to deceive everyone and act like nothing is going on when they are participating in it themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People really like to act like they aren&#8217;t talking about me when they are. A friend of mine once said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Truman-Show_The-web.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanjordan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}