{"id":5440,"date":"2014-06-01T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2014-06-01T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T17:10:21","slug":"two-ascension-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/two-ascension-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ascension Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-130923.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-130923.jpg\" alt=\"20140601-130923.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John Calvin<\/p>\n<p>&#038;<br \/>\n&#8220;To embrace the ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image-bearing creatures, but creatures nonetheless.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;N.T. Wright, <u>Surprised by Hope<\/u><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/two-ascension-quotes\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-130923.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John Calvin<\/p>\n<p>&#038;<br \/> &#8220;To embrace the ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), and to enjoy our status as creatures: image-bearing creatures, but creatures nonetheless.&#8221;<br \/> &#8212;N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-1pK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}