{"id":668,"date":"2012-04-08T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T19:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2012-09-07T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T05:44:11","slug":"on-easter-whatwho-is-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"On Easter &#8212; What\/Who is a Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting that of all my friends\u2019 Easter-related Facebook posts today, exactly one was a traditional religious message. Most posts represented secular spin-offs from Easter, while a few related to spring and the attendant seasonal renewal. I\u2019m a universalist Quaker who could be indentified with faithfulness to continuing revelation in the\u00a0Christian\u00a0tradition (there\u2019s a book in those words \u2013 must ask in person if interested). I may not be \u201ctraditional\u201d but at the same time am not really comfortable with an emphasis on the accoutrements of Easter (eggs, clothing, food, etc.). Family gatherings are beautiful, and if this is the opportunity, that\u2019s wonderful. But that does not make it Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting that of all my friends\u2019 Easter-related Facebook posts today, exactly one was a traditional religious message. Most posts represented secular spin-offs from Easter, while a few related to spring and the attendant seasonal renewal. I\u2019m a universalist Quaker who could be indentified with faithfulness to continuing revelation in the\u00a0Christian\u00a0tradition (there\u2019s a book in those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}