{"id":941,"date":"2015-01-02T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/an-exposition-in-defense-of-new-years-resolution\/"},"modified":"2015-01-02T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:00:13","slug":"an-exposition-in-defense-of-new-years-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/an-exposition-in-defense-of-new-years-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exposition in Defense of New Year\u2019s Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>Sounds pompous doesn&#8217;t it? Let&#8217;s put it this way: isn&#8217;t a little forward progress better than none?\u00a0 If I refrain from a cupcake today and a hot fudge sundae tomorrow, I&#8217;m approximately 1100 calories to the good. If, three days from now, I gobble down a piece of pie, I&#8217;ve still consumed 1100 calories less than were offered to me. I make this point because I easily fold under the pressure of personal failure. I do not cheerfully &#8220;pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again&#8221; as the old song goes. A prayerfully considered declaration of intent, however, holds me accountable. It invites small memories of success that are grounded in faith and lead to the will of God.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4099884\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5565-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/z0wAnJf7das\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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 Sounds pompous doesn&#8217;t it? Let&#8217;s put it this way: isn&#8217;t a little forward progress better than none?\u00a0 If I refrain from a cupcake today and a hot fudge sundae tomorrow, I&#8217;m approximately 1100 calories to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/an-exposition-in-defense-of-new-years-resolution\/\">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-941","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\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}