{"id":581,"date":"2014-08-29T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/inevitable-change\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T07:00:41","slug":"inevitable-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/inevitable-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Inevitable Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Sr. Nun Other<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A\u00a0 tricolor leaf on a sandy pathway signals change.\u00a0It&#8217;s arrived much too soon, this autumn leaf that rests by itself on sun baked sand. I ignore its message as I make my way around it.\u00a0My lunch in one hand, and a folding beach chair in the other, I wish that summer would stay awhile. But the truth is, I&#8217;ve noticed days growing shorter and nights a little cooler. I hear back-to-school chatter and discover stores filled with enticing note books, pencils, and flower-shaped erasers. Leaves change color as they react to the environment around them, shedding the green of summer to reveal colors that have been there all along. Who can judge which is more beautiful?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087601\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo-23-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/7S-IiukAapU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/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 Sr. Nun Other A\u00a0 tricolor leaf on a sandy pathway signals change.\u00a0It&#8217;s arrived much too soon, this autumn leaf that rests by itself on sun baked sand. I ignore its message as I make my way around it.\u00a0My lunch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/inevitable-change\/\">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":"1","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-581","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\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}