{"id":333,"date":"2013-12-31T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:56:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:56:06","slug":"bobs-wednesday-blog-let-us-embrace-our-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-let-us-embrace-our-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Wednesday Blog &#8211; Let Us Embrace Our Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/crocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-334\" alt=\"crocus\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/crocus.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>We live in a culture that is awash is discouragement. \u00a0Last night a party conversation went downhill after the words &#8220;post Christian era&#8221; were mentioned. One person noted that moral values in politics, business and public institutions do not reflect respected Christian values that anchored us fifty years ago. Hillary of Poitiers in the 4th century issued a simple challenge, &#8221; Christians, where is your hope?&#8221; \u00a0As we enter a new year, the question is timeless and so is the answer. \u00a0In the empty tomb of Christ who won the victory over sin for each of us,\u00a0we find our hope. \u00a0Let us embrace our hope anew in the person of Christ.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\":v6\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a culture that is awash is discouragement. \u00a0Last night a party conversation went downhill after the words &#8220;post Christian era&#8221; were mentioned. One person noted that moral values in politics, business and public institutions do not reflect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-let-us-embrace-our-hope\/\">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-333","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\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}