{"id":1967,"date":"2024-07-30T01:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:22:59","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1967\" class=\"elementor elementor-1967\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78120e3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"78120e3\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81a3dd3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"81a3dd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>        <div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?page_id=27\">Continuous Play<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/c1\/\">Next<\/a><\/p><p>\u201c<strong>The Reason Why<\/strong>\u201d is a captivating Gospel exposition which has helped unnumbered thousands find salvation in Jesus Christ. Robert A Laidlaw, CBE, founder of the Farmer\u2019s Trading Company is widely known as one of New Zealand\u2019s most successful and respected businessmen. Born in Scotland in 1885, he was one year old when his parents migrated to New Zealand. At the age of twenty-three he commenced a mail order business in Auckland, which grew into a retail organization with a staff of 2,700. It was Robert Laidlaw\u2019s concern for his staff which originally prompted the writing of \u201cThe Reason Why\u201d as a testimony to his Christian faith. By 1969, over 16 million copies of this booklet had been printed in more than 30 languages, and thousands of lives had been changed by its Gospel message. A dynamic speaker and inspiring leader, Robert Laidlaw has been described as \u201cone of the world\u2019s great Christian laymen.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?page_id=27\">Continuous Play<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/?p=56\">Next<\/a><\/p><hr \/><p><audio tabindex=\"0\" controls=\"controls\"> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/001_Intro.ogg\" type=\"audio\/ogg\" \/> <source src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/001_Intro.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/> <strong>Your browser doesn&#8217;t support this player. Please use Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Opera or Chrome.<\/strong> <\/audio><\/p><p><span class=\"audio_description\">This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"editor_note\">Edited by Dr SH Tow<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Reason Why Audio CD\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thereasonwhy.net\/download\/cd\/cd_cover.jpg\" alt=\"The Reason Why Audio CD\" \/><\/p><p>Please note that the last paragraph of some chapter texts may not be present in the audio tracks.<\/p><\/div>\n        \t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuous Play\u00a0|\u00a0Next \u201cThe Reason Why\u201d is a captivating Gospel exposition which has helped unnumbered thousands find salvation in Jesus Christ. Robert A Laidlaw, CBE, founder of the Farmer\u2019s Trading Company is widely known as one of New Zealand\u2019s most successful and respected businessmen. Born in Scotland in 1885, he was one year old when his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/intro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reason-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nissipublishing.net\/thereasonwhy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}