{"id":4101,"date":"2013-09-13T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:53:52","slug":"in-spite-of-sorrow-loss-and-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4101","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In spite of sorrow, loss and pain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week for my office door this week came from Adoniram Judson. It is a powerful statement of mission zeal- realistic, cost counted, hopeful because of the future promises.<br \/>\nI had assumed it was a piece from a larger poem but was unable to find any more of the poem. Perhaps this is all of it. If you know of a larger poem in which this is found, please mention it in the comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In spite of sorrow, loss and pain<br \/>\nOur course be onward still;<br \/>\nWe sow on Burmah&#8217;s barren plain,<br \/>\nWe reap on Zion&#8217;s hill&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Adoniram Judson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week for my office door this week came from Adoniram Judson. It is a powerful statement of mission zeal- realistic, cost counted, hopeful because of the future promises. I had assumed it was a piece from a larger poem but was unable to find any more of the poem. Perhaps this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;In spite of sorrow, loss and pain\u201d&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,302,4,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}