{"id":1348,"date":"2021-12-26T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T20:08:23","slug":"blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/12\/26\/blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-11.27.55-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-11.27.55-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"448\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-11.27.55-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-26-at-11.27.55-AM-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Blasphemy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">A crooner &#8211;<br \/>\nI think it\u2019s<br \/>\nJohnny Mathis &#8211;<br \/>\nis telling me<br \/>\nit\u2019s a Holy Night,<br \/>\nthat a Saviour<br \/>\nwas born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I have no<br \/>\nagenda to<br \/>\npersuade you,<br \/>\nI\u2019m just<br \/>\nmusing,<br \/>\nbut<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I wonder<br \/>\nwhat I\u2019m being<br \/>\nsaved from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Question:<br \/>\nIf that ray<br \/>\nof sunlight<br \/>\npiercing the<br \/>\nglass icicles<br \/>\non your<br \/>\nChristmas tree<br \/>\ncould speak,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and announced<br \/>\nto you that<br \/>\nit was<br \/>\nThe Sun,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">would that be<br \/>\nblasphemy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">If I were<br \/>\nto tell you<br \/>\nthat you are<br \/>\nas divine as<br \/>\nthat Child,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">your Birth<br \/>\na ray of sunlight<br \/>\nevery bit<br \/>\nas holy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">would that be<br \/>\na sacrilege?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I Am<br \/>\nbeginning to<br \/>\nbelieve<br \/>\nthat He came<br \/>\nto make a<br \/>\nBeliever<br \/>\nout of<br \/>\nyou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Phil Hearing; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Blasphemy A crooner &#8211; I think it\u2019s Johnny Mathis &#8211; is telling me it\u2019s a Holy Night, that a Saviour was born. I have no agenda to persuade you, I\u2019m just musing, but I wonder what I\u2019m being saved from. Question: If that ray of sunlight piercing the glass icicles on your Christmas tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}