{"id":4310,"date":"2020-04-11T18:29:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2020-04-11T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T23:29:59","slug":"the-there-of-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=4310","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;There&#8221; of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1169-1024x553.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1169-1024x553.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1169-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_1169-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, two thousand years\nearlier, men and women ran to a tomb and found it empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was this any wonder from he who was\nthere from the beginning, from he who was there when dust was made flesh and when\nmanna fell from desert sky and when brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rage became a nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salvation\nand when breath entered all those dry, dry bones and when women (prostitutes,\nqueens, widows, those reaching for cloak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edge, each so alone) wept and found\nmercy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it any wonder that, being there\nfor all of those times, he would not be <em>there<\/em>,\nlocked behind stone and bound in burial cloth and absent of any breath or hope,\nbut instead be <em>there<\/em>, moving and\nbreathing and calling out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the garden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first light?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rejoice in the resurrection of the Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, two thousand years earlier, men and women ran to a tomb and found it empty. Was this any wonder from he who was there from the beginning, from he who was there when dust was made flesh and when manna fell from desert sky and when brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rage became a nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salvation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2341,2343,2342,2344],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-easter-2020","tag-easter-reflections","tag-easter-thoughts","tag-the-promise-of-an-empty-tomb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}