{"id":5045,"date":"2018-03-31T21:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2018-03-31T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:56:38","slug":"from-good-friday-to-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"From Good Friday to Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good Friday:<\/strong><br \/>\nPause to perceive the pain,<br \/>\nsit with the sorrow,<br \/>\ncontemplate the cruelty<br \/>\nof the condemnation of Christ,<br \/>\nthe substitute of the sinless Son<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sad Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, the settled gloom<br \/>\nSpeaks only doom<br \/>\nOur Lord sealed in the tomb.<br \/>\nOur hopes were high.<br \/>\nWhy did he have to die?<br \/>\nWas it all a lie?<br \/>\nStumble through Sabbath, weak,<br \/>\nEverything so bleak<br \/>\nWhat to do at the first of the week?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easter Morning:<\/strong><br \/>\nTears are turned to triumph<br \/>\nWoe to wonder<br \/>\nSadness to singing<br \/>\nAching to alleluia<br \/>\nThe blues have blossomed to blessing<br \/>\nAnd darkness is driven away by delight.<\/p>\n<p>He is Risen!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday: Pause to perceive the pain, sit with the sorrow, contemplate the cruelty of the condemnation of Christ, the substitute of the sinless Son &nbsp; Sad Saturday Saturday, the settled gloom Speaks only doom Our Lord sealed in the tomb. Our hopes were high. Why did he have to die? Was it all a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=5045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;From Good Friday to Easter&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":[368,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045"}],"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=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}