{"id":313,"date":"2013-12-11T09:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-12-11T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:45:55","slug":"bobs-wednesday-blog-do-not-be-afraid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-do-not-be-afraid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Wednesday Blog\u2014Do Not be Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You who bring glad tidings to Zion&#8230;lift up your voice with a should&#8230;do not be afraid.&#8221;(Is 40:9) \u00a0For many of us, any good news is a bit suspicious. Is it really good? What&#8217;s the catch? \u00a0I gloss over this verse and inwardly dismiss it as too good to be true. \u00a0But can God disappoint? \u00a0Are his promises for real? \u00a0This Advent, may our hearts be healed of cynicism and layers of cautious faith. \u00a0The glad tidings are for real and unalloyed. As a child&#8217;s eyes sparkle with wonder, may our adult hearts recapture the gladness of God&#8217;s coming to each of us.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-314\" alt=\"child\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/child.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/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>&#8220;You who bring glad tidings to Zion&#8230;lift up your voice with a should&#8230;do not be afraid.&#8221;(Is 40:9) \u00a0For many of us, any good news is a bit suspicious. Is it really good? What&#8217;s the catch? \u00a0I gloss over this verse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-do-not-be-afraid-2\/\">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-313","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\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}