{"id":3982,"date":"2020-12-07T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:52:34","slug":"the-rising-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"The Rising of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Was the rising of Jesus fact or fable? <br>Who was that baby in that stable? <br>Just a boy from a farm <br>Who could do no harm <br>Or God from above <br>Full of mercy and love? <br>Why was he coming and where to go? <br>Without the prophets who could know? <br>We had that trust problem called &#8220;sin&#8221; <br>And we needed someone to win, <br>To take the consequences away <br>That came upon all that day <br>When our father named Adam <br>Along with his rowdy madam <br>Decided that they knew best <br>What was good and right for the rest <br>Of the whole human race. <br>But all went down in disgrace. <br>Oh what a ridiculous boast <br>To flout the command of the host <br>And the Maker of all! <br>&#8216;Twas a terrible, endless fall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Dec., 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the rising of Jesus fact or fable? Who was that baby in that stable? Just a boy from a farm Who could do no harm Or God from above Full of mercy and love? Why was he coming and where to go? Without the prophets who could know? We had that trust problem called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}