{"id":1804,"date":"2016-05-19T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2016-05-19T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:58:29","slug":"beautiful-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/beautiful-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdomwonder.com\">Sister Bridget Haase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A beautiful word, for me as an author and storyteller, sprouts from life\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n<p>A wor<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1806 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Watermelon-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Watermelon\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Watermelon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Watermelon-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Watermelon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Watermelon-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>d can inspire hope life daffodils dancing after winter. It can be as fragrant as a bunch of lilacs brought home to a crystal vase or as bold as a dandelion pushing its way through a rock. An engaging word feeds like a plump sun-ripened tomato or satisfies like a chunk of summer watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the right word\u201d can lift one to prayer, soften an email, enhance a social media post, or charm a website. In a word, or through many, wherever we are, in whatever we do, may we know that beautiful words matter for they form and transform a world, creating hope, fragrance. courage, and nourishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sister Bridget Haase <\/strong>Author of\u00a0<em>Doors to the Sacred<\/em>:<em> Everyday Events as Hints of the Holy<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Generous Faith<\/em>: Stories to Inspire Abundant Living<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisdomwonder.com\">www.wisdomwonder.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sister Bridget Haase A beautiful word, for me as an author and storyteller, sprouts from life\u2019s garden. A word can inspire hope life daffodils dancing after winter. It can be as fragrant as a bunch of lilacs brought home &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/beautiful-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}