{"id":572,"date":"2021-03-31T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=572"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T21:37:54","slug":"apologetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/03\/31\/apologetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/When-Jesus-Laughed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"321\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/When-Jesus-Laughed.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/When-Jesus-Laughed-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Apologetics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I apologize in advance<br \/>\nfor my errant theology,<br \/>\nbut I must come clean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I must confess<br \/>\nthat when<br \/>\nEaster morning dawns,<br \/>\nI will not be lit up<br \/>\nwith what I now<br \/>\nbelieve to be<br \/>\nmisplaced gratitude<br \/>\nthat God<br \/>\nwas somehow placated<br \/>\nand decided not to<br \/>\nexecute me for my<br \/>\nunoriginal sins,<br \/>\nbecause his firstborn<br \/>\nwas executed instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">No! God forbid<br \/>\nthat unwitting<br \/>\ntwisted tale, or<br \/>\nso it seems to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Instead,<br \/>\nI will be awash<br \/>\nin joy, laughing at<br \/>\nthe ungodly notion<br \/>\nthat death\u2019s sting<br \/>\ncould survive an<br \/>\navalanche of love<br \/>\nthat buried an empty,<br \/>\nuseless tomb in<br \/>\nendless victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Apologetics I apologize in advance for my errant theology, but I must come clean. I must confess that when Easter morning dawns, I will not be lit up with what I now believe to be misplaced gratitude that God was somehow placated and decided not to execute me for my unoriginal sins, because his [&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-572","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\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}