{"id":648,"date":"2014-10-16T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bend-of-light\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T07:00:37","slug":"bend-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bend-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Bend of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Melodious Monk<\/p>\n<p>There are many wonderful qualities to light;<br \/>\n-daylight<br \/>\n-moonlight<br \/>\n-dappled light<br \/>\n-Light of the world<br \/>\n-sunlight<br \/>\n-streaming light<br \/>\n-glistening light<br \/>\n-celestial light<br \/>\n-night light<br \/>\n-True light<br \/>\n-starlight&#8230;..just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>One of the amazing properties of light in nature is the drawing power it has. Plant life will do amazing things to &#8220;find the light.&#8221; \u00a0Either through bending, reshaping, or re-routing, plants are tenacious in finding a way to get to their life-giving light.\u00a0 These fall days are getting shorter, but as we begin our procession toward the hopeful season of Advent, let&#8217;s remember to start searching and bending to find our much-needed Light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087965\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1063-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/yOKaZuwa3jc\" 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 Melodious Monk There are many wonderful qualities to light; -daylight -moonlight -dappled light -Light of the world -sunlight -streaming light -glistening light -celestial light -night light -True light -starlight&#8230;..just to name a few. One of the amazing properties of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bend-of-light\/\">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-648","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\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}