{"id":1866,"date":"2016-11-10T11:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2016-12-20T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T18:26:52","slug":"all-creation-waits-stunning-for-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/all-creation-waits-stunning-for-advent\/","title":{"rendered":"All Creation Waits &#8211; Stunning, for Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paracletepress.com\/Products\/7855\/all-creation-waits.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1867\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/All-Creation-Waits-e-mail-header-2.jpg\" alt=\"all-creation-waits-e-mail-header-2\" width=\"730\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/All-Creation-Waits-e-mail-header-2.jpg 730w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/All-Creation-Waits-e-mail-header-2-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/All-Creation-Waits-e-mail-header-2-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/All-Creation-Waits-e-mail-header-2-500x257.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Looking for something new this\u00a0Advent?<\/h1>\n<p>This December, reach for a truly beautiful and unique Advent companion! In this book are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth of the Christ story. Portraits depicting how wild animals of North America ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend\u00a0allow\u00a0us to\u00a0see and hear, as if for the first time, the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but a doorway to a new beginning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each of the beautiful creatures in this little book is a unique word of God, its own metaphor. . . they announce the Good News of Advent: that through every dark door the creating Love of the universe waits.&#8221; \u2014 Richard Rohr, OFM<\/p>\n<p>Short, daily reflections that paint vivid, poetic images of familiar animals, paired with charming original woodcuts, will engage both children and adults \u2014 a wonderful gift!<\/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>Looking for something new this\u00a0Advent? This December, reach for a truly beautiful and unique Advent companion! In this book are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth of the Christ story. Portraits depicting how wild animals of North America ingeniously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/all-creation-waits-stunning-for-advent\/\">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":1,"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-1866","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\/1866","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}